It's worse than a crime: it turned out how Waltz connected the journalist to a secret chat

Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Mike Waltz added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal messenger chat instead of the press secretary of the US National Security Council (NSC) Brian Hughes because of his incorrectly saved number. This was stated by the CBS television channel, citing sources.

We are talking about discussions in a secret chat in Signal within Donald Trump's team of the attack on Yemen, which caused a big political scandal.

According to CBS, Goldberg sent a letter to the election headquarters of US President Donald Trump in October last year. Hughes forwarded this message to Waltz. According to an unnamed source, the NSC spokesman also asked Waltz to keep his new number. Trump's national security aide's phone saved Goldberg's number as Hughes' new number. An internal audit at the White House confirmed that none of the two officials had previously contacted the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

It is noted that Waltz called and sent messages to Hughes' real number many times. According to CBS, the confusion occurred during the trip of the US national Security Adviser to Saudi Arabia for talks with the Ukrainian delegation in early March. When he created the chat, he used the wrong Hughes number from the phone book.

EADaily reported earlier that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, published an article on March 24 about the conversations of Trump's people inside Signal. It turned out that the author was accidentally added to a closed Messenger group, whose members discussed plans for a US attack on the facilities of the Houthi group in Yemen.

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz has already stated that he took full responsibility for the leak, but suffered no consequences. The US president previously stated that the information transmitted via Signal was not secret.

The US Democratic Party considered the data leak via Signal to be a major puncture of the Republican Trump administration. Among other things, there are calls in the US Congress and the American expert community for the dismissal of Waltz and some other representatives of the presidential team.

Recall that the authorship of the saying "This is more than a crime, it's a mistake" is attributed to Napoleon.