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Waltz said he did not know how the journalist’s number ended up on his phone, adding that the Trump administration is investigating how it happened.
National security adviser Mike Waltz said Tuesday that he takes “full responsibility” for the leaked Signal group chat in which officials allegedly discussed plans to strike Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
“A staffer wasn’t responsible,” Waltz said in an interview with Fox News. “I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated.”
This comes after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote on March 24 that he was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat in which several top U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussed the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes against the Houthi terrorists.
When asked how Goldberg’s contact number was added to the group chat on the encrypted messaging app, Waltz said that there may have been a mix-up in contact information.
“Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else’s number there?” Waltz said.
“It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something we’re trying to figure out,” he added.
Waltz denied knowing Goldberg personally, saying that he had never met the journalist. However, the adviser said he knew some of The Atlantic’s reporting on President Donald Trump.
“I can tell you 100 percent I don’t know this guy. I know him by his horrible reputation,” he said. “And I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I don’t text him.”
Waltz said he did not know how Goldberg’s number ended up on his phone and that the administration was investigating how it happened.
Goldberg claimed in his report that the message chain on Signal “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”
However, Waltz clarified that no classified information was shared in the chat.
Hegseth has also denied reports that he had discussed classified military operation plans with other administration officials through the Signal app.
