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National Security Adviser Michael Waltz Says He Built Signal Group Chat That Mistakenly Included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: “Embarrassing, Yes”
Waltz tried to shift blame to the media.
There also is a great deal of confusion over the White House assertion that classified information was not on the text chat, even though, according to Goldberg, it included the most sensitive details of the pending attacks. In his story in The Atlantic, Goldberg did not share the details of the plans, writing that the “information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility.” “Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
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