The contents of a group chat set up by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and published in the anti-Trump magazine The Atlantic on Monday showed members of the president’s national security team engaging in a respectful policy debate regarding the March 15 U.S. military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen that had been striking U.S. ships in the Red Sea.
According to The Atlantic, Waltz reportedly set up the group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal on March 13 to coordinate the strikes, and appeared to have accidentally added Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to it.
The 18 members of the group chat included Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, someone believed to be Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, and others.
The group chat was called “Houthi PC small group,” with PC meaning “Principles Committee” — a…
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