Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth slammed The Atlantic on Wednesday over its reporting on a Signal chat group where he gave updates to top administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist from the publication about the United States’ recent military strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Hegseth made the remarks while addressing reporters from a tarmac in Hawaii where he was visiting U.S. forces as part of a larger trip to the Indo-Pacific region, where the administration is currently working to counter a rising Chinese threat.
Hegseth said that the attacks against the Houthis have been “devastatingly effective” as the military campaign now enters its second week.
“Nobody’s texting war plans,” he said. “Well, I noticed this morning out came something that doesn’t look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they even changed the…
