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Waltz said he couldn’t explain how Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was included in the group chat in what the US president called a “minor glitch”.
ADVERTISEMENTUS National Security advisor Mike Waltz took full responsibility for the group chat in which top officials in the Trump administration slammed Europe while planning strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. “I take full responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz told Fox News on Tuesday, adding he didn’t know how the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who leaked details of the text thread, was added. “It is embarrassing,” Waltz admitted of the bombshell leak critics say has put US national security at risk. His comments come a day after Goldberg reported that a user named Mike Waltz added him to the Signal chat.Goldberg, in an article that broke the story, says he saw classified military plans for US strikes in Yemen and detailed conversations between US officials in which they criticised what they said was “European free-loading.””I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s pathetic,” US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is reported to have said when discussing how unblocking trade routes via strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen would benefit Europe more than the US. Vice President JD Vance, who questioned the necessity of launching immediate strikes, said: “I just hate bailing Europe out again”.Furthermore, Washington officials discussed potentially finding ways to get Europe to pay for the US protecting key shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Waltz could not explain how Goldberg was added to the group, telling Fox News that he didn’t know the journalist and that another, unnamed contact was supposed to be there instead of Goldberg. He contradicted US President Donald Trump by saying that a member of his staff was not responsible. Trump on Tuesday alleged that somebody who worked with Waltz at a lower level had Goldberg’s phone number. The US president sought to downplay the entire incident, calling it a “minor glitch” that turned out to be “not a serious one”.In a Senate hearing on Tuesday, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe denied that any classified information was shared in the chat, despite Goldberg reporting that the message thread included “precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing” on imminent strikes against Houthi militias. The leak has sparked fierce backlash from Democrats and several Republicans, who have condemned the incident as a dangerous security failure and questioned the use of the app Signal, which was not approved for sharing classified information. European leaders have kept silent on the disdain aimed at the continent revealed in the conversation, which builds on previous public comments by US officials criticising Europe and demanding it should step up and fund its own defence without relying on Washington’s support.
