The national security advisor of the USAMike Waltz, according to a media report, has become even more common via safety regulations when dealing with confidential information than previously known. According to information from the magazine Political Waltz ‘team set up at least 20 chat groups at the short message service signal. These served to vote on topics such as China, Middle East Policy, Africa and Europe.
Political referred to four people who have been added to chat groups. Two of them stated that they were in at least 20 chats or had direct knowledge of them. All four noted that confidential information had been exchanged, reported the magazine on Wednesday.
This indicates that in the US government to an even more extensive extent than previously known confidential and secret information about commercial channels that are not considered to be safe.
The unveiling comes after Waltz has become a signal chat between him, US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and other high-ranking government employees. In the chat group, the top politicians exchanged high -sensitive details about an attack on positions of the Huthi rebels in Yemen – security regulations ignored them. In accidentally, Waltz also invited journalists Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat group, whose magazine The Atlantic the breakdown made public. A government spokeswoman and participants had reduced the violation of the security requirements.
Waltz apparently used private e-mail account
As the Washington Post On Tuesday, Waltz also used his private email account for business writing. The government of President Donald Trump admitted on Wednesday that Waltz received emails on his Gmail account with Alphabet’s commercial email service. However, he had never used his private email account to send confidential clasps. The sheet reported that in addition to Waltz, other members of the National Security Council Gmail also used government matters.
A consultant of Waltz has sent confidential military information and details about weapon systems in connection with an unspecified conflict via Gmail. Among other things, Waltz himself sent his schedule and work documents to his Gmail account, reported the Washington Post Citing three people familiar with the process and documents that could be viewed by the journalists.
The spokesman for the National Security Council Brian Hughes said that Waltz received “emails and calendar invitations from old contacts via his personal email”. However, his private e-mail account was never sent as secretly classified briefs. All Security Council employees have been informed that “classified material may only be sent via safe channels”.
In the past, Waltz had criticized the then democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sharply for the use of a private e-mail server during her time as Foreign Minister.
