Shannon Armenis

🚨 We have a problem @theatlantic 🚨 

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1/Aside from the strange timestamps mixed in with the messages labeled with how many minutes since the Signal text had been sent, the timeline provided by the Atlantic does not add up. The only messages in the signal group chat without valid time stamps also just happen to be the ones held back for “national security concerns”, yet subsequently released today by the Atlantic in a follow up article. 

Either @jeffreygoldberg, the Editor in Chief of @theatlantic, is so unskilled as a journalist that he cannot keep accurate records, or these messages were sent to him as screenshots and he is trying his best to piece together as if he were reading them in real time. 

Let’s Dive in.

2/ Goldberg initially established his timeline concerning the Signal Chat and the day of the Houthis Strike in his first article published on Monday, March 24th. This timeline was also revisited in the second article from the Atlantic today, March 26th. 

https://archive.is/2025.03.24-164629/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://archive.is/2025.03.26-122250/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

3/Let’s focus specifically on the timelines established by Jeffrey Goldberg in both his March 24th and 26th articles as they relate to the specific text messages held back and then released 48 hours later. I will break this graphic down step by step throughout the thread. 

4/The first thing I noticed in the released “attack plan” text messages, was the fact that these messages were the only ones that did not include actual timestamps to validate when they were sent, yet were surrounded by and even had one message right in the middle that did have timestamps. Certainly not criminal but odd, none the less.

5/Secondly, I noticed that @CIADirector Ratcliffe’s message was missing from the second article Signal messages thread and Mike Walz’s emoji message was posted AFTER his previous message had only been sent 5 mins prior AND the first article had Mike Walz’s same Emoji message time stamped at 4:58pm?

6/At this point, I realized it would be best to start a timeline from the beginning of the messages that were initially held back and then released on March 26th. 

@SecDef Hegseth helps us with this timeline establishment. For posterity purposes he includes within his “super-secret-attack-plans” that he is sending his message at exactly 11:44amEST. However, although his message does not include a valid timestamp, it does show that the person reading it is doing so 19 mins after it was sent — 12:03pm

7/But there is a problem, if @SecDef Hegseth’s message was sent at 11:44am as documented by him and Jeffrey Goldberg, yet is being read 19 minutes later at 12:03pm, how is JD Vance’s message showing a timestamp of 12:13— ten minutes later? 

8/Next, Goldberg is clear in both articles that Mike Walz’s next message is sent at exactly 1:48pm. Again, although there is no timestamp it is showing as sent 17 mins prior. Therefore we can deduce that the person viewing this message is doing so at 2:05pm. 