US President's National Security Advisor Mike Walz has taken "full responsibility" for creating a chat in the Signal group that sparked a high-profile scandal. This is reported by CNN.
"I take full responsibility. I created this group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated," — said Waltz in an interview with Fox News on the evening of March 25.
Continuing to disparage the journalistic integrity of The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Waltz attempted to give a clear answer as to why the contact information of a reporter who is hated by President Donald Trump ended up in his phone.
"It's a shame, yes. We're going to get to the bottom of it," he said.
When asked how he got Goldberg's phone number, Waltz suggested that the reporter's number was accidentally listed under someone else's name — a person he planned to recruit into the Signal group.
"Have you ever had someone's name in your contacts and then you have someone else's number in there? Yes? You have someone else's number in someone else's contact. So of course I didn't see this loser in the group. He looked like someone else," — said Waltz.
He added that "we are now trying to figure out whether he did it intentionally or whether it happened in some other technical way" and added that he had never met Goldberg.
Woltz did not name the person he intended to bring into the chat, but said: "The person I thought was in the chat was never there." He also supported Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
While Waltz claims that the information shared in the Signal chat was not confidential, he said he would prefer that Goldberg not release the full texts of the messages.
The scandal surrounding the secret chat Signal
The other day, The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a secret Donald Trump administration chat room where strikes on Yemen's Houthis were being discussed.
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