NSA Mike Waltz is responsible for “embarrassing” signal chat leaks

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz assumes the leaked “full responsibility.” Signal Group Chat A senior Trump official discussed plans for a future strike against Yemen’s Houtis.

“I’m totally responsible. I’ve built a group,” Waltz said. “Ingraham’s Angle” Tuesday. “That’s embarrassing. We’ll get to that bottom.”

Trump reveals who was behind the signal text chain leak

Written by Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic First person account Get connection requests from what appears to be Trump’s national security adviser Michael Waltz on March 11th On the signal, A popular encrypted messaging service used by journalists and government officials. He accepted and added to a chat group called “Houthi PC Small Group,” where a series of Trump officials discussed what critics call a massive violation of national security turned out to be an upcoming attack on Houthis.

Several Trump officials reportedly joined the chat, including Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses, director of John Ratcliffe and White House Chief Susie Wills.

President Donald Trump was asked about his story at the White House on Monday, but when he appeared to be without anyone else, he shot the Atlantic when asked about his involvement.

“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a huge Atlantic fan,” he told reporters. “For me, it’s a magazine that’s gone out of business. I don’t think it’s a magazine, but I don’t know anything about it.”

Trump says the Waltz doesn’t need to apologise for leaks in the signal text chain: “Do his best.”

The Waltz also sought to be a number of criticism in the Atlantic, declaring he had no knowledge of Goldberg other than what the NSA called his “terrifying reputation.”

“I don’t know this guy. I know him for his horrifying reputation. He’s really a journalist’s bottom scum. And I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I don’t text him. He wasn’t my phone.

“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, and of all the people there, somehow, this guy was lying about a president who lied to the Gold Star family, lied to his lawyers, went to Russian hoaxes, lied, and painted the American president.

The Atlantic responded “Ingraham’s Angle” Partly, it says, “an attempt to disgrace and trust the Atlantic, the editors and our report to follow the obvious playbook of elected officials hostile to journalists and others in power with the First Amendment of all Americans.” ”

Trump defended the Waltz in a comment on Fox News Tuesday, saying that despite some, national security advisers would not be fired for the incident Democrats seeking waltz The Secretary of Defense will resign from resigning following an apparent national security breaches.

“He’s not fired,” Trump told Fox News. The president said the incident was “mistake,” but said there was “nothing important” in the signal text thread.

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Waltz was also dealt with President’s comments on NBC Tuesday That staff at Waltz’s office were behind adding journalists to group chats.

“The staff weren’t responsible,” he said. “You got 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.

Waltz did not reveal who was intended to be added to the signal chat.

In the same interview with NBC on Tuesday, Trump noted that Goldberg’s inclusion in the group chat “has no effect at all.” Strike in Yemen.

“Michael Waltz learned the lesson and he’s a good guy,” Trump said. I told NBC In a phone interview on Tuesday.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added in a social media post Tuesday that “war plans” were not discussed in group chats and that “the classified material has not been sent to the thread.”

“As the National Security Council said, the White House is looking at how Goldberg’s numbers were accidentally added to the thread. Thanks to President Trump’s strong and decisive leadership, the Houthi strike was successful and effective, thanks to everyone in the group. The terrorists were killed.

Waltz told Ingraham’s Angle that he took valuable lessons from the signal chat leak episode.

“The number one lesson I learned is that there are journalists who built fame and fortune in trying to destroy this president,” Waltz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “So we have to tighten. We are tightening. And seeing how this happened, there are some of the best tech minds.”

“We’ve made a mistake. We’re going to move forward and continue to knock it out of the park for this president.”

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Greg Norman, Emma Colton and David Rutz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.