
White House Dismisses The Atlantic's War Plan Revelations By Criticizing Headline
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The magazine published the Signal group chat texts detailing the Yemen airstrikes, but the Trump administration seized on the phrase "attack plans."
The Trump administration went into attack mode after the The Atlantic published its latest bombshell revelations about war plans shared in a Signal group.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief who was mistakenly added to a group chat about airstrikes in Yemen, initially held back some messages over concerns about national security breaches.
But after repeated denials from Trump officials that the messages contained classified material, The Atlantic on Tuesday released further texts outlining specific details of the military strikes on Houthi targets, including a detailed timeline.
Within minutes of the story’s publication, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt set the tone of the response — suggesting the magazine was downplaying its initial story by using the phrase “attack plans” in its latest headline, rather than “war plans,” as she also made personal attacks on the reporter.
“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans,’” she wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, with a screenshot of the headline.