U.S. National Security Council adviser Mike Waltz is taking "full responsibility" for creating a chat in the Signal group to discuss U.S. military strikes in Yemen, which was accidentally attended by The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. The politician stated this in an interview with Fox News, UNN reports.
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"I take full responsibility. I created this group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated. ... It's embarrassing, yes. We're going to get to the bottom of it," Waltz said.
Asked where he got Goldberg's phone number, he suggested that the reporter's number was accidentally listed under someone else's name - a person he intended to add to the group.
Have you ever had someone's name listed in your contacts and then someone else's number there? Right? You have someone else's number in someone else's contact. So, of course, I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else
He also stressed that the information published in the Signal chat was not secret, but added that he would prefer that Goldberg not make the full messages public.
Recall
The day before, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he was accidentally added to a chat in Signal, where he witnessed a discussion of future US attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
This caused a heated discussion in the White House: an investigation was launched, and there is even talk that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz should be fired.
In turn, US President Donald Trump supported Waltz. He said the situation did not affect the military operation.
