The White House considers the case of information leakage from a group chat in the Signal messenger regarding strikes on Yemen closed. This was announced by the press secretary of the administration of US President Donald Trump, Caroline Leavitt, UNN informs with reference to Fox News.
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According to her, the advisor to the head of the White House on national security, Mike Waltz, continues to be an "important part of his team."
We are moving forward. Both the President and Mike Waltz, and his entire national security team, have worked very well together, if you look at how much safer the United States of America has become thanks to the leadership of this team
She added that steps have been taken in the White House to ensure that "something like this never happens again."
Let us remind
Recently, the editor of "The Atlantic" Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was accidentally added to a chat in Signal, where he witnessed discussions of future attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
This caused a heated discussion in the White House: an investigation has been launched, and there is even talk that national security advisor Mike Waltz should be fired.
In turn, Donald Trump supported Mike Waltz after the incident with the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic getting into a closed chat where military plans were discussed. Trump said that the situation did not affect the military operation.
Waltz himself took "full responsibility" for creating the chat in the Signal group to discuss US military strikes in Yemen, in which the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, accidentally became a member.