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The Atlantic editor-in-chief #JeffreyGoldberg was accidentally added to a group chat with several Trump Administration officials, including Vice President #JDVance and Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth, in which they discussed “imminent war plans” earlier this month, Goldberg reported on Monday. The inadvertent messages, shared via the encrypted messaging app Signal, were sent to Goldberg in the days leading up to the U.S. launching air and naval strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. The strikes were made “in an effort to open international shipping lanes in the Red Sea that the Houthis have disrupted for months with their own attacks,” The New York Times reported on March 15, the day the strikes took place. The messages show the back-and-forth discussion between Trump Administration officials over whether the U.S. should strike the Houthis now or wait until April or later. There were 18 people included in the group chat, including Goldberg, who was accidentally added by Michael Walt...

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