Trump admin officials accidentally texted Houthi war plan to journalist, held discussion on 'group chat'

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in a stunning revelation has said that he had prior information about the United States military strike against Yemen's Houthi rebels. The journalist said that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth inadvertently sent plans for the strike in a messaging channel of which he was also a part.

Elaborating about the incident Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic that he got a request from Mike Waltz which also appears to be the name of President Donald Trump's national security adviser. The journalist was invited to join a messaging channel called "Houthi PC small group". He further writes that he was initially apprehensive about joining the group and thought it was set up by some foreign unit to spread disinformation against the USA's foreign policy.

Jeffrey Goldberg also shared some screenshots of text that was going on in the group which included a series of top officials of the Trump administration.

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote, "I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans." "I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president."

Jeffrey Goldberg also further wrote that he quietly left the group and later asked for clarifications on why he was given access to secret war plans of the USA.

Brian Hughes, who is a spokesperson for the National Security Council, responded to Goldberg's queries and also confirmed that the Signal messages were legitimate.