The editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, has nothing to say about his relationship with the national security advisor Mike Waltz, who inadvertently addition To a group of groups on the very sensitive levels of the United States to bomb Yemen a few days ago.
“I’m just not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz,” Goldberg told CBS News in an interview on Wednesday.
Waltz said he had “never met” Goldberg, would not be able to choose him in an alignment of the police and ransacked his reputation, calling “the lower scum of journalists”. But the photos have surfaced online Earlier Wednesday of the two together during an event at the French Embassy in 2021.
“If your eyeballs see us together, then I suppose your eyeballs see us together,” said Goldberg about the photos.
Waltz also suggested that Goldberg was in a way added to the Cat Saying who also included vice -president JD Vance and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth – or another technical incident that led to the breach. Goldberg described “crazy” claims.
“This is what happened on March 11,” continued Goldberg. “I received a request for a message from Michael Waltz. I accepted the request for a message. This is what happened.” The signal only allows users to add people to cat groups by phone number, QR code or username of the person they want to add. The history of the Atlantic published on Wednesday included a screenshot that showed Waltz as a administrator and “JG” as a member of the group group, called “Houthi PC Small Group”.
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“If I am such a harmful character,” said Goldberg, “Why am I on Mike Waltz’s phone? Why does he have my phone number? Why does he include me in this cat? And what do you expect a journalist doing when you learn interesting information about how an administration is considering military action? What does he really think?”
Goldberg has published the content of the message thread only more than a week after Yemen strikes. On Monday, he published a piece Detailing how he was added to the cat of 18 people and characterized parts of the conversation on the plans to bomb Houthi targets, rather than citing them directly, citing his concerns that the details were too sensitive to the publication. But after the group’s cat members and President Trump denied That the information was classified, Goldberg, after checking with the administration to see if the officials wanted something to crack, published the Sms About strikes on Wednesday.
Additional messages have shown that HegSeth has provided detailed information to the group on strikes targeting Houthi rebels earlier this month, including a chronology from the moment when fighter planes take off and what type of weapons would be used.
Goldberg said it was in the public interest to have the information and be able to judge the incident by themselves.
“The public has the right to know if there is a massive security violation in the national security apparatus of the United States. There is obvious evidence here that national security officials, we are talking about real-time information and military information on an open source messaging application that they are not supposed to use for this kind of thing,” said Goldberg. “When journalists discover a massive national security violation, it is our duty to tell the public.”
Ed O’Keefe
