ReutersUS National Security Adviser Mike Waltz responsible for a group chat in which high -ranking officials planned military strikes in Yemen with an unintentionally added journalist.
“I bear full responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz told Fox News on Tuesday, adding that she was “embarrassing.”
President Donald Trump and US intelligence heads reduced security risks and said that no secret materials were shared.
However, Democrats and some Republicans called for an investigation into what many legislators described as a major breach.
The editor -in -chief of Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg said he was accidentally added to the signal chat by a user named Mike Walz.
In his article that broke the story He says he saw military plans classified in Yemen, including weapons packages, targets and timing, two hours before bombs. This content is hidden from the piece.
Waltz was unable to explain the Fox News interview in an interview with Goldberg in the chat, but – he contradicts Trump – he said that one of his team's members was not responsible and another, he was supposed to be another unmistakable call there at Goldberg's place.
“We got the best artistic minds looking at how to happen,” Waltz, adding that Goldberg was not on his phone.
“I can tell you 100 % I don't know this man,” Walt said, adding that he spoke to Elon Musk to help know what happened.
President Trump photographed the accident, describing him as a “defect” that had no “ever influence” operational.
Speaking to newsmax, Trump said someone worked with Mike Walz at a lower level has a Goldberg phone number.
The American Director of National Intelligence, Tolsi Gabbard and the director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, who was part of the group, denied in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that any secret information was shared in the series of messages.
The Sign Group chat also included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete HegSeth.
Mark Warner, Vice -Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: “This point of chatting in this signal sheds light on the dirty and impressive national security strategy from the Trump administration,” said Mark Warner, Vice -Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In his closeness, Goldberg said that chat officials discussed the possibility of Europe to pay the price of the United States to the main shipping corridors.
“Whether it's now or several weeks from now, the United States should be the one that reopens these shipping corridors,” wrote the account associated with Waltz on March 14.
He added that his team was working with the defense and state departments “to determine how to collect the associated cost and impose it on the Europeans” – at the request of Trump.
At one point in the thread, the Vance account acquired that the strikes will benefit the Europeans, because of their dependence on these shipping corridors, adding: “I just hate to save Europe again.”
The user was identified as HegSet has responded after three minutes: “VP: I share completely your hatred in the free European download. It is compassionate.”
Revelation has sent shock waves across Washington, which prompted a lawsuit and questions about the reason for high -level officials discussing such sensitive matters about a civilian application that is likely to be weak.
Some national security experts argued that the leak was a major start, and archive experts warned that he had violated the laws on preserving presidential records.
The Monitoring of America, the International Non -Party Energy Agency Group, has filed a lawsuit against officials who participated in the chatting due to the alleged violations of the Federal Records Law and administrative procedures.
The group said that by setting the chat to delete messages automatically, the group violated a law requesting White House officials to submit their records to the national archives.
Last month, the National Security Agency warned of the signal weaknesses, according to the documents obtained by the American BBC CBS.
