Journalist publishes every damning text from war plans leak - eviltoast
Journalist Publishes Every Damning Text from War Plans Leak
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Trump’s top officials insisted no classified information was included in the chat, which is now totally public.

Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      Exactly why I used to subscribe to the Washington Post until Bezos wiped his ass with it. I’ll have to look into subscribing to The Atlantic now.

      • bean@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 days ago

        Yeah I’m considering dumping NYT too. I heard Reuters was a better ‘investment’. Please someone tell me if that’s wrong. I don’t want to support Billionaires.

        • Logi@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 days ago

          Wired “has been killing it” during the ongoing soft coup, to quote my journalist wife, and we’ve replaced our WaPo subscription with that. We can never dump NYT just because of the recipes.

      • CobraChicken3000@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I have been The Atlantic subscriber for about 5 years now. I think it has pretty great writers on staff. Their physical subscription is pretty cheap too.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      This was a gift given to the Atlantic, though. I guess you gotta milk it for what it’s worth.

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
      48·
      6 days ago

      I’m not disagreeing in a general sense, but it’s funny to make that argument here when this info basically fell into the journalist’s lap. Very little actual journalism went into making this story possible

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        6 days ago

        But think of how much money is going to be needed for the security detail this guy is gonna need for the foreseeable future. Or the costs of retaining legal representation to help him navigate through what is guaranteed to be an endless sea of investigations, frivilous lawsuits, etc. that the Trump administration is guaranteed to launch until something sticks.

        I wouldn’t be getting on any planes any time in the near future if I were him either.

        This story may have fallen into his lap, but it sure as hell wasn’t free.