The American political landscape has been rattled by revelations that the Trump administration discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen in a chat group containing a journalist from The Atlantic. Senior Trump administration officials are facing tough questions about their operational security, use of consumer technology, and even their emoji usage.

So far, however, there has been little focus on the specifics of the attack, much less discussion of the fact that one of the targets of the March 15 strike was a civilian residence.

After revealing on Monday that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, had been invited to the Signal chat group, The Atlantic published on Wednesday the actual messages in which top Trump administration officials laid out minute-by-minute operational details and specific weapons to be used in strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Atlantic opted to publish the chats — which included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance — only after the White House tried to deny classified details were shared.

Before the “Houthi PC small group channel” Signal messages were released, Waltz announced that recent attacks had “taken out key Houthi leadership, including their head missileer.”

“We’ve hit their headquarters,” Waltz told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, prior to Goldberg’s revelations. “We’ve hit communications nodes, weapons factories, and even some of their over-the-water drone production........

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