Mike Waltz admits “error” in the “embarrassing” sharing of the Yemen strike plans with the journalist
The National Security Councilor of the President of the United States Donald Trump says that he is assuming “full responsibility” for an “embarrassing” situation created when a prominent journalist was added to a group chat in which he was suspended Strike plans against Houthi’s goals They were discussed by high US officials.
“We made a mistake. We’re going on,” Mike Waltz said during an interview With Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday evening.
Waltz said he built the group chat on the Signal Messenger app and that no assistant was to be blamed.
THE The news went on Monday And he raised many questions about how such a situation would have been possible first and because Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic, would have been added to the text chat.
Government officials have used the signal for organizational correspondence, but it is not classified and can be violated. Privacy and technology experts say that the popular End-to-End Cryptografated Messaging and Voice Call app is safer than conventional SMS.
Waltz denies the knowledge of the journalist
During the same interview with Fox News, Waltz also seemed to blame Goldberg – who was invited to join the chat of the Signal group, in which war plans were discussed – to “somehow (obtain) for someone’s contact and then was sucked into this group”.
Waltz denied Goldberg, who criticized separately for his previous work as a journalist.
The consultant also tried to guide attention to the largest goals of the Trump administration in Washington.
The President of the United States Donald Trump says that there was no information classified in a group chat that included a journalist. The former Pentagon journalist of the CNN Barbara Starr joins Ian Hanomansing to discuss the implications of this loss.
“Do we worry about the mainstream media? Do we worry about the Atlantic?” Waltz asked.
“What interests me is focused on the mission, creating the president’s agenda,” said Waltz, who also praised Trump and the team that surrounds him in the White House.
Waltz “learned a lesson”: Trump
Trump on Tuesday minimized the accident, saying that he was “the only problem in two months” of his administration as democratic legislators criticized the administration for the management of highly sensitive information carelessly.
Trump He told NBC News That time “proved to be not serious” and expressed its continuous support for the waltz.
“Michael Waltz learned a lesson and is a good man,” Trump said to the net.
He also seemed to blame an helpless waltz helper for Goldberg who was added to the group chat. “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staff had his number there.”
John Bolton, who was once the United States ambassador to the United Nations, saw him unlikely that anyone in the Trump cabinet faces the consequences for what happened on a signal – with an important warning.
“I don’t think none of the people involved will undergo any disciplinary action by Donald Trump, unless Trump begins to suffer political damage from this”, Bolton, who was also The National Security Councilor of Trump During his first presidential mandate, He told Times Radio.
The democratic senators expressed skepticism after the security officials with the Trump administration testified in front of the Senate’s intelligence committee that no classified material was shared in a group chat on signal that inadvertently included a journalist of magazines.
Barbara Starr, a former correspondent of the Pentagon for the CNN, said that the signal scandal raised questions that other accidents of this type have occurred as well as the one reported by the Atlantic.
“We don’t know what else happened, what else happened,” he told CBC News Tuesday evening.
“There were other cases of this? It is unlikely that this was the first time they decided to get together.”
Similar concerns were shared by Susan Rice, who was a councilor for the national security of the former president of the United States Barack Obama and also as an ambassador of the United States to the United Nations.
“Obviously, since nobody opposed the idea that they would have this conversation on the Signal App, it suggests a lot that they always do it, that this is their normal modus operandi”, Rice Rice He told Msnbc.
