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Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claimed he knew U.S. was going to strike Houthi targets in Yemen two hours before the airstrikes happened.

The Atlantic published what it said was classified information from a group chat that the magazine had previously withheld.

The White House has described the chat as "sensitive" and denied it contained classified information.

Hegseth initially denied wrongdoing when a reporter asked him about the group chat upon his arrival in Hawaii on the day Goldberg 's article went live.

The messages indicated the U.S. was going to strike Yemen two hours later , at 1:45 p.m. EDT .

" JD Vance " responded, "I will say a prayer for victory," to which two others responded with prayer hands emoji .

As of this writing, Hegseth maintains he did not share classified information.

Executive Order 13526 , from 2009 , states that "information shall not be considered for classification unless its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause identifiable or describable damage to the national security" A Reagan -era order from 1982 contains the same language.