The Trump administration’s error in adding a journalist to a top secret Signal group chat about attack plans against Houthi terrorists in Yemen has thrown several officials into hot water. The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief,

The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the incident, parsing semantics and attacking the journalist who was inadvertently added to the chat.

Donald Trump said he believes someone working for National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was responsible for including The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal group where plans for U.S. airstrikes on the Houthi militant group in Yemen were discussed.

The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety. Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders,