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How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg made noise with a Signal scoop

The Washington Post · last updated

The world might never have gotten the whole story.

There would have been no details of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confiding to the “Houthi PC Small Group” his minute-by-minute plan: “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.”

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