Much ado is being made claiming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “sent War Plans to a Journalist.” That claim is inaccurate and Hegseth didn’t do anything wrong.
In an article published by “The Atlantic” Reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, the reporter who received the war plan info, reveals the following:
On Tuesday, March 11, I received a connection request on Signal from a user identified as Michael Waltz. Signal is an open-source encrypted messaging service popular with journalists and others who seek more privacy than other text-messaging services are capable of delivering. I assumed that the Michael Waltz in question was President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. I did not assume, however, that the request was from the actual Michael Waltz. I have met him in the past, and though I didn’t find it particularly strange that he might be reaching out to me, I did…
