Has the national security advisor for President Donald Trump have security gaps? It would be a height, and yet Michael Waltz, says Mike Waltz, chains the Bourdes. A week after adding a journalist to a discussion on the signal application about the planning of the American strike in Yemen, commonly called the “Gate signal, Mike Waltz would have used personal Gmail accounts to lead government affairs, according to the newspaper The Washington Post.
According to the American daily newspaper, Mike Waltz has disseminated information that is not very sensitive to his personal account, such as his agenda and other working documents. On the other hand, one of his collaborators used the Gmail service “for highly technical conversations with colleagues from other administrations relating to sensitive military positions and powerful armaments systems linked to an in progress conflict,” writes the newspaper.
Gmail even less secure than signal
Gmail, the Google email service, is even less secure than the encrypted signal messages, underlines the Washington Post. In a statement, the spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) Brian Hughes assured that Mike Waltz had “never sent classified documents to his personal mail account or on any unsecured platform”. THE Washington Post said he was based on interviews with three officials and having consulted emails emanating from the services of Mike Waltz.
Last week, Donald Trump’s security advisor also “assumed his full responsibility” in the “Signal Gate” case, where Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of the magazine The Atlanticwas incorporated by mistake into a discussion group on the signal encrypted application. The highest officials of the US administration had then mentioned military operations against the Houthi rebels of Yemen, which thus gave the journalist access to the American strike plan against the Houthis.
If in public, Donald Trump defended his national security advisor repeating that “he is a good man”, minimized the scope of the case and attacked the media, behind the scenes, Donald Trump asked people, internal and external to the administration, if he were to dismiss him The New York Times. “The incident is closed and the president continues to have confidence in his national security advisor,” the spokesman for the American presidency, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday about the “Gate signal”, before the publication of the latest revelations Post.
20 Conservations on the signal application
However, the wind is not in favor of Michael Waltz. No later than yesterday, Wednesday, April 2, the site Politico reported that the team of the national security advisor regularly organizes discussions on signal to coordinate official work on issues such as Ukraine, China, Gaza, politics in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The online newspaper indicates that two of the people he interviewed said they had participated or had direct knowledge of at least 20 conversations of this type. Four said he had witnessed discussions on sensitive information.
THE Wall Street Journal Had already reported the existence of a signal discussion group of the National Security Council (NSC), in addition to that on Yemen. These last revelations show that the dependence of the signal NSC is generalized and is an integral part of its operations.