Around three weeks after the affair about accidentally published military communication by the US government, media research illuminates how the leak may have come about. So reports the British Guardian Referring to an investigation by the White House that the US security advisor Mike Waltz had the number of the US journalist and editor-in-chief of The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, stored in his phone under a wrong name. Accordingly, Waltz actually wanted the former spokesman for US President Donald TrumpBrian Hughes, invite you to a corresponding chat group of the Messenger app signal.
Goldberg had reported that it was invited to the Messenger app’s signal chat group with almost 20 members. In it, high-ranking US politicians and government members would have a planned military strike against the Huthi militia in Yemen discussed. In addition to Waltz, the chat belonged to Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and CIA director Tulsi Gabbard, but not Donald Trump. According to Goldberg’s representations, the chat fell together with actual attacks by the United States in Yemen.
Numerous details about military blows in Yemen
The US President initially talked about the affair according to Goldberg’s publication-as did the general criticism of observers that US government members had exchanged highly sensitive military information about a commercial private provider. US government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced that in the chat group neither “war plans” had been discussed nor “exchanged information as a secret”. The Atlantic Then published further details from the chat history, which contained a lot of information about the use of specific weapons, goals and times of attacks.
Waltz, who had invited Goldberg to the chat, took responsibility for the leak. However, he did not step back, but announced that he did not know Goldberg and never spoke to him. At the same time, he claimed that he had not deliberately invited Goldberg to the group.
Contact with Trump’s team in October 2024
This is made by investigating the government from which the Guardian cited, supported. Goldberg Trump’s team asked for a statement in a different matter in October 2024 during the US presidential election campaign. Trump’s spokesman Brian Hughes at that time forwarded this email with the request for help to Waltz-including Goldberg’s email signature including telephone number. Waltz then mistakenly saved this in his phone under Hughes ” name, but then never called it. When Waltz Goldberg invited to the signal chat group about three weeks ago, according to the report, this was done under Waltz’s assumption that he invited Hughes.
There is no official statement by the US government on the report. Goldberg told that Guardian Telephone: “I will not comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz, except that I know him and spoke to him.”
An internal examination is also underway in the US Department of Defense as a result of the signal affair. However, after the Signal Leak, other alleged negligence from Mike Waltz with a view to his communication channels became known.
