The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

An inadvertent invitation to a group chat thrust The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the center of an explosive national security breach that's put the White House on the defensive. Why it matters: Goldberg's decision to disclose the discussion of planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and publish the group chat's contents has embroiled top Trump officials in scandal and exposed them to potential legal jeopardy.

How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen

Soon enough, MAGA world would regain its hostile posture and proceed with its requisite smearing of the messenger. Trump repeated his false claim that The Atlantic is going out of business. Hegseth called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist” (exactly the kind of guy you’d want to be sharing war plans with).

The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.

As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel warn of a damaging double standard.

Mr. Goldberg, who was included on a private text thread discussing war plans, was a longtime national security reporter who became editor of The Atlantic in 2016.

Defenese Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and more of the contacts who appeared in the Signal group chat about a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.

Goldberg spoke with The Bulwark's Tim Miller about how he was added to the text thread that included top Trump officials.