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Monday, March 24, 2025
White House accidentally texted reporter its plans for strikes on Houthis in Yemen
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This image taken from video provided by the US Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 15, 2025. (US Navy via AP)
The White House confirms that a journalist was included in a text group in which US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others planned military strikes in Yemen.
“We are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said.
The Atlantic magazine published a story by editor Jeffrey Goldberg which said that “US national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.”
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