U.S. president Donald Trump's national safety advisor Mike Waltz accidentally placed in his contacts a reporter's telephone number, which he later added to a closed group chat about American strikes in Yemen and thus sparked a scandal — reported the Guardian newspaper, citing 3 people acquainted with the case.
"Waltz included a writer in a group chat on Signal about planned U.S. attacks on Yemen after he mistakenly wrote his number in contact with another individual he wanted to add a fewer months earlier," the publication said.
It was noted that Waltz was asked by iPhone to add the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg to another person's contact card. His algorithm mistakenly saw the connection between Goldberg's telephone number and Brian Hughes' contact card, the current spokesperson for the U.S. National safety Council.
The mistake occurred in October erstwhile Goldberg notified run staff Donald Trump of an article on the then Republican candidate to be published. An email with Goldberg's data was transmitted by Trump's staff to Waltz, who then wrote his number on the incorrect contact card, as suggested by his smartphone.
Trump was informed of these circumstances and decided not to fire Waltz, reported the newspaper.
The editor-in-chief of Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg said on March 24 that on March 11, he received a request in the Signal communicator and entered the interview area where American officials discussed attacks on the ruling Ansar Allah (Houthis) movement in northern Yemen. According to Goldberg, a group called the ‘Houthis PC tight group’ conducted a ‘fascinating political discussion’ with accounts under the names of U.S. Vice president JD Vance, US Secretary of defence Pete Hegseth, National safety Advisor Mike Waltz and another officials. Goldberg presented screenshots of correspondence in which the Pentagon's chief informed respective hours before the operation began about types of aircraft and targets that, according to a writer in the event of a leak, could endanger military personnel. Still, the White home inactive maintains that the charges are not serious.
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