Published on: 2025-05-11 03:36:19
Last month, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been accidentally included in a government group chat where confidential war plans were shared. US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was the one who added Goldberg, but he blamed the number getting “sucked in” by his phone. Now, a new report at The Guardian explains how an iOS feature played a key role in the whole mess. Hugo Lowell writes at The Guardian: According to three people briefed on the internal inves
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In Brief How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg get added to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing their plans for an airstrike in Yemen? The simplest explanation: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had Goldberg saved as a contact in his phone and accidentally added him. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” from another contact, Goldberg scoffed, “This isn’t ‘The Matrix.’” But according to the Guardian, an inte
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Mike Waltz is a chatty guy. The national security adviser to Donald Trump who accidentally added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat about an attack on Yemen actually has quite a few group chats going, according to Politico. He and his team have reportedly set up at least 20 chats meant to coordinate actions in different different regions across the world. Politico, citing people who have been added to the group chats (no word on if they were added intentionally or not
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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday. Waltz has been at the center of controversy for weeks because he inadvertently invited The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat in which top Trump administration officials discussed a plan for bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. Yesterday's report of Gmail use and another recent report on additional Si
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Top national security officials at the White House, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have sometimes been using regular Gmail accounts to discuss highly sensitive military operations, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted like more secure government systems available to officials like Waltz and can be intercepted by foreign adversaries. The Gmail accounts were used to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons syst
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Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, had his Venmo friends list public until Wednesday when the White House was asked about it, according to a new report from Wired. The list included 328 people, including lobbyists, journalists, and members of the military, according to the news outlet. And that kind of information would obviously be tremendously useful for any foreign adversary, a term that may be difficult to define these days as Trump turns America’s longstanding f
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A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit
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