The seemingly harmless mistake from the National Security Advisor Donald Trump Mike Waltz and his iPhone could be the real reason why a journalist was added to a signal chat that revealed us to hit Yemen.
According to The Guardian citing three sources, Waltz accidentally saved the number of Atlantic Editor Magazine Jeffrey Goldberg under the name of someone else. The official originally intended to add this person to a group chat called “Houthi PC Small Group”, the report revealed.
The internal investigation of the White House emphasized this as one of several incorrect steps that did not notice until Waltz created the group in March.
Donald Trump initially intended to fire Waltz, more because of the fact that Goldberg’s number was stored on his phone. Later he decided against the turn.
“I don’t burn people because of false news and witch hunting,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker.
He also said he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his National Security and Pete Hegset advisor, his head of the Pentagon.
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iPhone real culprit?
According to the sources of The Guardian, the story took place when Goldberg decided to make an article about Donald Trump, who was on his election campaign at that time. He sent an e-mail of the then spokesman Trump Brian Hughes, who copied him as a text message to Waltz’s phone.
The message contained all the content of the e -mail, including the phone number of Jeffrey Goldberg.
That’s when the drama iPhone could come.
In an extraordinary reversal, Waltz could unintentionally save Goldberg’s number under the name Hughes thanks to “updating contact proposals”, Guardian said.
According to one of the sources cited by the media output, this feature update is where the iPhone algorithm adds an unknown number under the name of an existing contact if they find that both are relatives.
Also read | Jeffrey Goldberg ridicules an excuse of NSA Mike Waltz for signal chat escape
Signal Chat Leak: The latest
Last month, the best American National Security officials discussed sensitive attack plans on a publicly available message signal for sending messages and mistakenly added journalists to the chain.
The White House said that information shared via a publicly available signal application with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine, was not classified.
Since then, the Trump administration has been involved in the discussion for adding the editor of the Atlantic magazine to the private thread describing the immediate bomber campaign in Yemen.
Then the Atlantic published an article on internal exchange, shocking the establishment of national security and evoking extensive criticism.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in the White House that the administration maintained confidence in the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who faced criticism for apparently adding a journalist to the chat.
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Leavitt said that steps were taken to prevent the incident and said the case was closed.
“As the president has explained very much, Mike Waltz is still an important part of his national security team and this case was closed in the White House in terms of us,” she said at the end of March.
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