Minutes before the United States launched a deadly rocket campaign in Yemen who reportedly killed 53 people and injured 89included Multiple childrenon March 15, the AtlanticThe editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg was in his car in a parking lot of a supermarket waiting for the attack.
The story is now known and good average: Goldberg was added to a signal group called “Houthi PC Small Group” days before the Rocket Barrage “after the national security adviser of President Donald Trump, Michael Waltz, invited him to connect to the coded message application. The editor was unintentionally included in the discussion, a spokesperson for the National Security Council recognized the Atlantic.
The incident has a meme -trend lantern screenshots of messages from the Group Chat, published by the AtlanticIn which top officials discuss a deadly attack with flagrant contempt for civilian casualties and apparently no knowledge of the journalist in the Chamber.
Although the signal has not been approved by the US government for sharing classified communication, the platform is often used by organizers and journalists of Social Movement because of the end-to-end coding. The incident, which has already been dubbed “Signalgate‘Points to a serious infringement of national security as members of the inner circle of Trump – including the secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth, Vice -President JD VANCE, CIA director John Ratcliffe, deputy staff chief of the Witte Huis Stephen Miller, and director of Miller, and director of Miller, and director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller, and Director of Miller. Details about specific goals and weapons and weapons.
In one First-person story Published yesterday, March 24, Goldberg told how he happened to participate in the group chat and the information discussed therein, although he said that he had omitted information that “could be used to harm the American military and intelligence staff, especially in the wider mid -east.”
Goldberg, a reporter of national security who also served in the Israeli army as a prison guard during the first Intifada, left the group cat as soon as he believed it was authentic. Some said that Move was contrary to the motivations of a decorated beat reporter, who tested what the American audience believes that a journalist can and should do. It is likely that his decision was informed by journalism ethics, such as minimizing damage and identify themselves as a reporterBut it was probably also an attempt to thwart spy costs. (The Nixon administration tried To continue Pentagon Papers reporter Neil Sheehan under the espionage act.)
Other internet users brought back the blown portraits of this month of Vice President Vance to make the situation light. A user pointed out that Hegseeth was the only person in the chat “Houthi PC Small Group” who had a signal profile photo.
Different iterations of a bright yellow bird from Sesame Street Sitting among the suitable persons at a meeting table also circulate, which means that the absurdity of inviting a journalist in a government group chat is connected to military campaigns.
And for once, the Daily show Was funny and introduces a text chain in which the profile photo of JD Vance gets bigger and larger as the conversation progresses.
Former New York Times reporter and Washington Post Commentator Taylor Lorenz, now an independent journalist, posted A series of memes that points to the fact that Goldberg did nothing immediately after receiving Intel on the impending attacks.
The White House has said that it performed a series of “precision attacks” against the Houthis, a Iran supported armed political group In Yemen, in retaliation for attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis have claimed that they act with Palestinians in solidarity on ships related to Israel, the US or the United Kingdom, although the group did Reportedly attacked other ships.
Since Goldberg has published his article, President Trump has defended Waltz, who added Goldberg to the Chat, in a telephone interview with NBC News, call him a “good man.” The members of the Chat group claim that no classified information has been shared.
The leaked (or whatever you want to call it) Signal Group -Chat Screenshots offer a template for memers to fill in with their own humor focused on the Trump administration -or perhaps more acute, for the public to understand the omissions of the nation to treat the use of deadly weapons and strength.
