Goldberg rejects the defense of Waltz’s signaling leak: “The figures are not only in other phones” | Signals group cat leakage

The editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg, rejected the explanation offered by national security advisor Mike Waltz to find out how it was included in a cat in an administration group Trump on – and before – the recent bombing of the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Goldberg said Waltz’s theory that his contact was “sucked” on his phone via “someone else’s contact” was incredible.

“It is not the matrix,” said Goldberg to Kristen Welker of NBC during the meeting of the NBC press, referring to the classic science fiction film on humans living without knowing it in a simulated reality. “Telephone numbers are not only sucked in other phones.

“I don’t know what he is talking about there.”

Goldberg continued: “You know, very often in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was on his phone because my phone number is on his phone.”

Goldberg made waves when the magazine, over two days from March 24, published the details of a group cat which included senior officials of the Trump administration discussing an imminent American attack on Houthi facilities and higher staff.

The Cat, on the signal application, has annoyed a lot to Washington about the security precautions taken by the managers of the Neophyte administration to ensure national security, triggering several days of major titles to find out if the texts were equivalent to a violation.

Donald Trump repeated his position on Sunday that disclosure was a mistake – and the president denied information that Waltz had proposed to resign. “No, he didn’t do it,” said Trump. “There was no reason for him.”

The sooner Trump said Waltz is “a very good man, and he will continue to do a good job.”

Sunday, Goldberg said that Waltz “told everyone that he has never met me or told me about – it is simply not true”. Waltz said at a meeting with Trump and the White House ambassadors he had “met” Goldberg.

“There are many journalists … who have made big names to invent lies in this president,” said Waltz, without offering evidence. Referring to Goldberg, he added: “This one in particular that I have never met, I do not know, never communicated with, and we examine and examine how he entered this room.”

The National Security Council (NSC) confirmed the authenticity of messages and said that it was examining how Goldberg entered the cat initiated by Waltz. Theories range from the involuntarily selection of the Goldberg number; His number being under the name of a security manager supposed to be included; intentional sabotage.

But Goldberg told NBC News: “It has become a somewhat eccentric situation. There is no subterfuge here. My number was in his phone. He added to the group cat wrongly. There we go.”

The United States Democratic Senator Mark Warner continued to put pressure on the issue on Sunday, saying that republican White House officials involved in the signal violation risked an American life.

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“If you had been a traditional military officer or a CIA social worker and you were also sloppy and carefree with this classified information, you would be dismissed,” Warner, Virginia, Martha Raddatz on ABC this week. “Probably on this subject.”

Warner – A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee – said that he also used the signal because he is safer than sending SMS. “I encourage people to use the signal. But that still doesn’t mean, because it’s safer, you can put classified information, “he added.

The member of the Congress Mike Turner, a Republican of Ohio and former president of the intelligence committee of the American chamber, said at the same point of sale that he had praised an examination in what had become signalgate and “if these types of conversations should occur”.

Nevertheless, he said that he considered the Houthi strikes “a great operation”.

Susan Rice, who was the national security advisor of former president Barack Obama, told Podcast Meidastouch that the flight was “extraordinarily reckless” and “unprecedented”.

Rice said that even the existence of conversations is classified.

“It would never be tolerated in a normal administration,” said Rice. “They would be dismissed on site.”