Waltz says it was he who created the group and that none of his employees should be blamed for the mistake.
– We made a mistake. Now we move on, he says.
Wrong number has been saved
The journal The Atlantic reported on Monday how its editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg was suddenly invited to a group chat where ministers and top officials discussed military attacks against Yemen. The fact that the conversation was genuinely substantiated when the plans were enforced and the US military, in accordance with the schedule discussed, began aircraft bombing against Yemen.
The idea was that another person, whom Mike Waltz does not want to identify, would be included in the chat. But Goldberg’s number was accidentally saved under the other person’s name in Waltz’s phone, says the security adviser. How the number could have been saved there he cannot answer.
-I’ve never met him, I never think I’ve communicated with him, he says, adding that IT experts are trying to figure out how it all may have happened.
Suggests ugly
Mike Waltz accuses Jeffrey Goldberg for being an anti-trump, calls him “the bottom scrap among journalists” and suggests that there is somehow full play behind Goldberg being added to the group chat.
– I am not a conspiracy theorist, but of all people in the world, this guy is in some way that ends up there, he tells Fox News.
“Attempts to downplay and discredit The Atlantic, our editor -in -chief and our reporting follows an obvious tactic of elected politicians and others in the position of power that are hostile to journalists,” The Atlantic writes in a statement in response in Fox News Consignment.