The head of the Pentagon rejected all accusations

A high-profile scandal erupted after The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed in a new article how he was accidentally added to a group chat on Signal.

According to the journalist, in this chat, members of Donald Trump's team discussed plans for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth immediately responded to this article.

He first publicly called the editor a "liar" and a "discredited so-called journalist" for writing critical reports about Trump.

No one corresponded about military plans, and that's all I can say about that.

Pete Hegset

US Secretary of Defense

According to the journalist himself, the chat participants published classified information, including information related to national security issues, as well as operational intelligence, which by law cannot be distributed outside of protected government communication systems.