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On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltzaccidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed plans for a forthcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. In the days since, the Trump administration hasn’t been all too clear about what exactly happened, with Hegseth repeatedly denying that anyone was “texting war plans”–even though the White House itself confirmed the message chain’s authenticity–and Waltz simultaneously taking responsibility for the “embarrassing” error while suggesting that the reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, could have somehow schemed his way into the chat. As national security experts overwhelmingly dispute the administration’s contention that no information in the chat was classified, Waltz, it appears, still has a job only because Trump doesn’t want to give Democrats and the press “a win.”

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