The best memes in the case of the journalist added by mistake to a White House chat

Information on defense of a State is always maintained under the strictest secret between the high positions of the Executive, but occasionally leaks to the press.

What is not usual for the leaders of the national security of a government such as that of the United States talk about launching a military attack in a messaging application, due to the low security that implies using that medium, and also inviting that chat to a journalist with whom, in addition, the government does not feel precisely affinity.

That is what happened to the editor of The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, and so memes have been portrayed on social networks.

“On Tuesday, March 11, I received a signal application for a user identified as Michael Waltz,” Goldberg explains in an article published in its environment. He thought it could be a trap, but he hoped that he was the true Waltz to give him information on some subject like Ukraine.

Two days later the application told him that they included him in a group called ‘Houthi PC Small Group’ for “Coordination on the Hutis”.

This insurgent Yemen movement, backed by Iran, has launched hundreds of attacks against Israel and against commercial navigation in the Red Sea and in the Ormuz Strait since October 2023 in response to the Matanza de Palestinos in Gaza and the West Bank.

There were also vice president JD Vance, President Trump’s negotiator for the Middle East and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, or National Security Council officials.

At this point, the journalist began to give credibility that the conversation was real, but was still amazed that no one had realized his presence in the group.

His astonishment grew when Hegseth shared operational details of the attacks against Yemen, including information on objectives and the time of attacks.

In case he still had doubts, he was able to verify that these happened at the hours that the Secretary of Defense had marked on March 15.

The journalist wrote to Waltz, Segheth and several members of the group to ask them why they added to the group, if they knew who it was and if they usually treated sensitive information about these channels. According to Goldberg, Signal is not approved by the government to share classified information, so, by using it for this purpose, Waltz has been able to violate several provisions of the Espionage Law.

The Atlantic He did not publish his article until March 24, but on the 21st the Office of the Secretary of Defense demanded an “immediate and exhaustive investigation” on “unauthorized revelations”