The Trump administration's national security leader mistakenly included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a chat about a signal discussing a secret plan to attack Yemen's Houtis.
“We couldn't believe that US national security leadership would communicate about signals about the imminent war plans,” Goldberg wrote about his March 15 message.
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Goldberg was first thought to be misleading by bad actors trying to plant false stories in the Atlantic. However, a national security council spokesman later confirmed to the Atlantic that this was a real message chain.
“I've never seen a violation like this,” Goldberg wrote.