As spotted by The New Republic, in the same group chat at the center of all that drama, Vance sent a bizarre late-night text just hours after it was exposed by The Atlantic for being a stunning violation of national security. “This chat’s kind of dead,” Vance sent at 2:26 am. “Anything going on?”No one responded, according to a screenshot of the chat taken on March 27, two days after Vance sent the message. When The Atlantic first reported on the group chat, Hegseth insisted to reporters that “Nobody was texting war plans.”The Signal chat proved to just be the tip of the iceberg. On top of accidentally leaking stuff to a journalist in the Yemen chat, he also discussed bombing the country in another group chat that had his wife and brother.