Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor who was added to a Trump administration group chat planning war strikes in Yemen, said Wednesday that he published the full text transcript to let “readers decide for themselves” how confidential the discussions in the thread really were.

In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Goldberg shared details about The Atlantic’s decision to publish the whole text conversation he became privy to when national security adviser Michael Waltz inadvertently added him to a group chat on Signal with 18 Trump administration officials ― something he first detailed in a bombshell story published Monday.

“We didn’t do this lightly,” Goldberg told MSNBC. “And all yesterday, we were asking our contacts across the administration ... since the president has declared this unclassified and ... since the head of the CIA said there’s nothing sensitive or nothing classified in these documents, we just want to make sure that you don’t have specific objections to this kind of information ... going out in public.”

Goldberg said he agreed to redact one piece of information from the transcript at the CIA’s request. But overall, he and his Atlantic........

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