So, Who’s Getting Fired for This?

Accidentally texting war plans to a journalist is clear cause for dismissal.

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Left: A ship fires missiles at an undisclosed location after President Donald Trump launched military strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, in a screengrab from a handout video released March 15, 2025. Right: The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg in Beverly Hills in 2022.

U.S. Central Command/Handout via Reuters; Mike Blake/Reuters

Agroup of Trump administration officials accidentally texted Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about U.S. military operations in Yemen. Goldberg wrote that he was added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal on March 11 by someone whose profile was named “Michael Waltz,” which is the name of Trump’s national security adviser.

From there, Goldberg saw messages from accounts sharing names with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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