Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has released the full message chain from the Signal group chat he was erroneously included in with Vice President JD Vance, a chain he claimed included “precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” of a planned attack on Houthi rebels who’ve been terrorizing crucial shipping lanes in the Middle East from their base in Yemen.
By reading the entire chain (which is included at the end of this post) it’s clear that his claim is inflated at best.
Goldberg was added to the chain by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s account on March 11, and at the time the disappearing messages feature was set to one week. So, he had to have screenshotted the messages before they disappeared on the 18th. On March 12, Waltz told the group:
You should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the President’s…
