India, March 25 -- In a major blunder, White House has admitted that the top editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently included in an unsecure group chat used by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior national security officials to organise airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen earlier this month. This action seems to have violated numerous federal rules and standards.

Editor-in-Chief Goldberg wrote in an article for The Atlantic magazine that "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling."

Goldberg was included to the group on Signal, which is an open-source messaging app with a priv...