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Pet Hegset again claims that in discussions about potential strikes on Houthi targets, no war plans or classified information were revealed

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, published an article this week, in which he recounts a message in a group chat that was accidentally sent to a journalist. This led to a protest from the administration and calls from Democrats to fire Hegset and other defense officials.

'No one transmits war plans in SMS messages,' Hegset said on Wednesday while aboard a plane heading to Hawaii. 'I noticed that something was posted this morning that doesn't look like war plans. And in fact, they even changed the name to plans for the offensive because they know it's not war plans.'

'There are no divisions, locations, routes, flight paths, sources, methods, classified information,' he added, stating that no sensitive information was disclosed in the chat.

Hegset noted that he kept President Donald Trump's national security informed in real Time.

'My duty, as I said, besides all this, everyone has seen it now,' Hegset said. 'Team updates are to provide real-time updates - general real-time updates. Keeping everyone informed. That's what I was doing. It's my job.'

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth stated that Hegset should 'resign in shame.'

'Pete Hegset is a fabricated liar. This is such obvious classified information that he recklessly disclosed that could endanger our pilots,' Duckworth asserted. 'He should immediately resign in shame.'

Duckworth added: 'An independent investigation should be conducted about Hegset and other officials who were in this group chat. If Republicans do not join us in holding the Trump administration accountable, then they are complicit in this dangerous and likely criminal violation of national security.'

Goldberg said he received an invitation to join the group chat on the encrypted messaging service Signal on March 11 from someone who appeared to be National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Goldberg posted screenshots of some of the messages he observed.

He reported that officials discussed 'war plans,' but did not publish some extremely sensitive information he saw, including specific information about armed forces, targets, and timing, due to potential threats to national security and military operations.

Earlier that day, Hegset criticized Goldberg in a post on X, in which he stated that he had never 'seen a war plan.'

'So let me get this straight. The Atlantic released so-called 'war plans,' and these 'plans' contain: names absent, targets absent, locations absent, divisions absent, routes absent, sources absent, methods absent, and classified information absent,' he wrote. 'These are very poorly thought-out war plans.'

'This only proves one thing: Jeffrey Goldberg has never seen a war plan or 'offensive plan,' as he calls it now. In fact, it's the opposite,' he added.