Finally, this Tuesday Donald Trump has been forced to publicly defend his Minister of National Security, Michael Waltz, after the crisis generated for having added a journalist to a private courier group in which senior officials … From their administration they discussed in detail an attack against the Hutí Group in Yemen, executed on March 15.
In an interview with the NBC News chain, Trump declared that «Michael Waltz has learned the lesson And he is a good man. It reduced the incident, ensuring that the presence of the journalist “had no impact at all” and qualifying the military operation as “a total success.” He added that it was “a simple stroke” that occurred after two months of “notable successes” of his team in national security.
The affected journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, head editor of ‘The Atlantic’, received confidential information about the attack two hours in advance, but chose not to disseminate it for ethical and security reasons. During the days he remained in the Signal group, none of the high positions noticed his presence, despite the severity of the shared content.
Goldberg explained that he avoided publishing messages that included operational details such as military objectives, the deployed armament and the sequence of the attack. Even so, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, denied having shared that type of information And he disqualified Goldberg, which he called “misleading and highly discredited,” although the government itself has confirmed the veracity of the content since the journalist has deliberately omitted any information that could compromise intelligence personnel.
This unprecedented episode exposed how high officials of the Trump government, including Hegesh, vice president JD Vance and advisor Stephen Miller, shared highly sensitive information in a commercial messaging application. The conversation also exposed personal opinions, such as Vance’s animosity to Europe, which he accused of relying on the “permanent rescue” of the US, qualifying to which Hegseth responded by calling “pathetic” the European attitude.
The White House has recognized the authenticity of the message group and announced that it investigates how the inclusion of an external number occurred. According to experts cited by Goldberg, the use of an unauthorized platform to discuss military plans I could violate Espionaj’s lawHey the Federal Record Law, especially if, as happened, some of the messages were programmed to automatically self -destruct.
By coincidence, this Tuesday, the main intelligence responsible for the United States appears before the Senate Intelligence Commission at their annual hearing on global threats, in the midst of this controversy: the national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard – who was in a group of messages – and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe.
Congress Democrats have requested immediate investigation and promise to address the issue in depth during this appearance. Democratic senator Mark Warner, a higher rank member of the commission, described the episode as «A direct threat to national security“And he denounced that the Trump administration is” playing recklessly “with classified information.
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