White House Responds After Journalist Apparently Looped Into Group Chat on Houthi Strike

White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said the Trump admin is ’reviewing how an inadvertent number was added' to the Signal chat


The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a Trump administration text chat discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen in the hours after the first bombs dropped, the White House has confirmed.

In a story published in The Atlantic on March 24, journalist and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recounted being added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal on March 15, nearly three hours before the U.S. government officially announced that it had resumed a campaign of strikes targeting the Houthis. -- More...

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