Signal gate - Let's put this psyop to rest

On Monday morning, Washington woke up to extraordinary revelations in the pages of The Atlantic. Screenshots of text messages between cabinet-level officials of the United States discussing the authorization and operational details of imminent military strikes on Yemen, which took place earlier this month. Not everything in the Signal thread was contained in the screenshots that The Atlantic released to the public. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who had inadvertently been added to the text message group, said he would not make public some of the messages because of the extraordinary risks that might pose. But he did say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s communications to the group “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S.would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”

The Atlantic’s Shane Harris has explained in a subsequent interview with Goldberg that the communications included “the number of aircraft that are involved, the kinds of munitions that are being dropped, specific times … specific targets on the ground … names of individuals—of U.S. officials—who should not have been put in an unclassified chain because of their status as intelligence officers.”