Pete Hegseth calls Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine, a 'deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist'
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that "nobody was texting war plans" after a report indicated that a journalist was inadvertently added to a sensitive messaging group.
"Nobody was texting war plans, and that's all I have to say about that," Hegseth told reporters in Hawaii.
His remarks came after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine, disclosed in an article published hours prior that he had been mistakenly added to a group of senior officials on the Signal messaging platform on March 13 after receiving a connection request from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz two days prior to relay plans for military strikes against Yemen's Houthi group.
Hegseth called Goldberg a "deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again"
“This is a guy who peddles in garbage," he added.
