The White House on Tuesday pushed back on criticism of the administration over the handling of military messages after a journalist was mistakenly included in a group chat in which high-ranking government officials discussed potential military actions.

In a social media post on Tuesday, White House communications director Steven Cheung dismissed the controversy about the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic being accidentally added to a group chat using the messaging application Signal involving multiple Cabinet members and other top-ranking Trump administration officials during discussions about military operations in Yemen.

“The Atlantic story is nothing more than a section of the NatSec establishment community running the same tired gameplay from years past,” Cheung wrote.

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