Foreign Minister Marco Rubio for the first time, on Wednesday, addressed Signal controversy chat He admitted that “someone made a big mistake” when a journalist from the Atlantic Ocean was added to a text series that includes the best national security heads in Washington.
“This thing was prepared for coordination purposes,” Rubio told reporters from Jamaica.
But the disclosure, which is likely to exchange the information classified on the site of the goal of the Russian infiltrators, and that the series included an editor from the Atlantic Ocean, sent a shock worldwide – though Pentagon It confirms that no intelligence classified in the messages has been exchanged.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio speaks at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Andrew Holins in Kingston, Jamaica, March 26, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Swimming Pigeon/AFP via Getty Images)
The Atlantic correspondent publishes more texts on the attack on Houthi goals
“It is clear that someone made a mistake.” Someone made a mistake and added a journalist. ” “Nothing against journalists. But you are not supposed to be this.”
“I contributed to that twice. I identified my contact point, which is Arkani president, and then later, I think three hours after the issuance of official ads for the White House, and I congratulated the team members,” continued.
Rubio said that although the information was not technically classified and was not in “any point threatening to operate the lives of our soldiers, the information” was not aimed at revealing “and the White House was investigating the matter.
president Donald Trump He reduced the severity of the break, noting that it was “the only defect in two months” that faced his administration and told NBC News that a disaster was “not dangerous.”
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who was said to have created the text chain and added the Atlantic editor, Laura Ingramham Fox News, said he assumed “full responsibility for” the “embarrassing” accident.
Likewise, the Director of National Intelligence, Toulsi Gabbard, told the House of Representatives intelligence committee that it was a “mistake” to include a correspondent in a text group that included “explicit and sensitive” information.
He also emphasized that the texts did not include any secret information during the testimony in front of the Senators on Tuesday.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Minister Beit Higseth at the White House on February 24. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
The discussion broke out between the reports of the Atlantic Ocean and the White House yet Trump and Pentagon Administration He said that “war planning” information was not shared.
“There are no sites. There are no sources and roads. There are no war plans. Foreign partners have already been notified that the strikes were imminent.”
Sometimes the Atlantic maintains the texts that include “attack plans”.
Team update: Time Now (1144ET): The weather is favorable. Just confirm with CENTCOM we go to launch the task. Atlantic Ocean.
1410: More launch F-18S (Second strike package).
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But Rubio, including compatibility with other administration officials, pointed to the Pentagon's evaluation about whether his leader had issued confidential information and said: “They have made it clear that (the texts) were not exposed to the danger of anyone or the mission at that time.
“There was no intelligence,” Rubio added.
