Leaked Yemen attack chat released

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Pentagon's Hegseth texted start time of planned killing of Yemeni militant

Pete Hegseth arrives at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Garcia

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for the planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 along with details of further US airstrikes that would normally be closely guarded secrets, according to screenshots of a chat released by The Atlantic.

Hegseth has repeatedly denied texting war plans as President Donald Trump's administration tries to contain the fallout from the revelation that it included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg that day in a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal with Trump's most senior national security advisers to coordinate on the start of an offensive in Yemen.

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