Advisor for the national security of the US President Donald Trump says that he is taking “full responsibility” for the “embarrassing” situation created when an outstanding magazine journalist has been added to the group chat Strike plans against Houthi's goals They were discussed by senior US officials.
“We made a mistake. We're going forward,” said Mike Waltz During an interview with Laura Ingraham in Fox News on Tuesday evening.
Waltz said he built a group chat in the Signal Messenger application and that no adviser was guilty.
. The messages diverged on Monday And he presented many questions about how such a situation would be possible and why Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, would be added to a text chat.
District officials have used a signal to organizational correspondence, but it is not classified and can be hated. Privacy and technology experts say that the popular comprehensive encrypted message and a voice connection application is safer than conventional SMSs.
Waltz denies the knowledge of the journalist
During the same interview, Fox News Waltz also seemed to blame Goldberg – which was invited to join the signal group chat in which the war plans were discussed – for “somehow (get) on whose contact, and then is drawn into this group.”
Waltz denied the knowledge of Goldberg, whom he criticized separately for his previous work as a journalist.
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“Do we care about the mainstream media? Do we care about the Atlantic?” Waltz asked.
“What I care about is focusing on the mission, implementing the president's program,” said Waltz, who also praised Trump and the band surrounding him in the White House.
Waltz “learned lessons”: Trump
Trump left this incident on Tuesday, saying that it was “the only fault in two months” of his administration as a democratic legislator criticized the administration To carelessly use highly sensitive information.
Asset NBC News said That the passage “turned out to be not serious” and expressed further support for Waltz.
“Michael Waltz has learned lessons and is a good man,” said Trump for the network.
It also seemed to blame the unnamed Waltz adviser for adding Goldberg to group chat. “It was one of Michael's people on the phone. The employee had his number there.”
John Bolton, who once served as the US ambassador in the UN, found it unlikely that anyone in Trump's office would have consequences for what happened in signaling – with one serious reservation.
“I do not think that any of the involved people suffer from all Donald Trump's disciplinary actions, unless Trump himself begins to feel political damage,” Bolton, who also served as Own National Security Advisor Trump During his first presidential term, Times radio said.
Democratic senators expressed skepticism after security officials with the Trump administration testified before the Senate Intelligence Commission that no implicit material was made available on group chat on signaling that he was inadvertently contained a journalist of the magazine.
Barbara Starr, a former correspondent of the Pentagon in CNN, said that the signal scandal raised questions about whether other such incidents took place except that the Atlantic.
“We don't know what happened, what else happened,” said CBC News on Tuesday evening.
“Were other cases? It is unlikely that they decided to enter the signal together for the first time.”
Similar fears were shared by Susan Rice, who served as the national security advisor of former US president Barack Obama, as well as the US ambassador to the UN.
“Of course, because no one forced the view that they would talk in the Signal application, he suggests that they do it all the time, that this is their normal Operandi, Rice Msnbc said.