The senior American official intended to add the spokesperson to report the cat

A series of misadventures was responsible for a Washington journalist added to a high -level group cat among the best US national security officials last month, according to media reports citing an internal investigation in the White House.

Sources have told the American BBC CBS News and Guardian partner that the US National Security Councilor Mike Waltz had tried to add a high-level spokesperson to the reported cat when he inadvertently added the editor of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg instead.

They said the investigators found that the Goldberg number had been accidentally recorded in Waltz’s phone as alternative contact for national security spokesperson Brian Hughes.

Goldberg revealed the cat last month in a bomb article that detailed how managers shared very sensitive attack plans for strikes on Yemen.

The use of the signal to discuss the military plans attracted a meticulous examination and a supervisory office at the US Defense Ministry is probe In the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the use of the cat service.

The results of the internal probe on the violation of security were not made public. BBC News asked for comments from the White House and the Atlantic.

Waltz told Fox News last month that another nameless contact was supposed to be in the cat at Goldberg and that “100% I do not know this guy”.

When he is in a hurry by the host Laura Ingraham on how the Goldberg number was added, Waltz replied: “Well, if you have the contact of someone else, then in a way … is sucked. It is sucked.”

Goldberg previously refuted this explanation and said that the two met several times.

“This is not the matrix. The phone numbers are not only vacuuming in other phones.” Goldberg declared during an appearance on Meet The Press of NBC. “My phone number was on his phone because my phone number is on his phone.”

By the Goldberg accountHe accepted a request for a message to the employment of Waltz that he believed to be a hoax.

He looked, over a period of days, accounts under the names of vice-president JD Vance, American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard National Intelligence Director exchanged messages on a next American military strike on the Houthis rebel targets, who, who, Yemen, who are, who, in the Hein-Yemen, who are, who, in the Yemen, who, in the Hein-Yemen, who, in the Hein-Yemen, who is, who in Yemen, who is, who finds himself, who is, who, in the Yemen, who is, who, in the Hein-Yemen, was Finally took place on March 14.

Goldberg left the cat after the realization of strikes, but reported his experience in Atlantic magazine, later Publishing Total messages. The White House recognized that the messages were legitimate.

Sources now tell CBS that the first mistakes occurred months earlier.

Goldberg had sent an email to Trump’s presidential campaign, asking for comments for a story in October 2024. The sources said Hughes had been responsible for processing the request, which he sent to Waltz with the Goldberg contact details.

From there, Waltz’s phone encouraged him to record the phone number, which he approved. But the sources indicated that the device had saved the Goldberg number under the name of Hughes.

When Waltz went to assemble the cat group’s cat in March 2025, Waltz thought he added Hughes, according to sources. But it was actually the Goldberg number added to the conversation.

The day after signal revelations, Waltz took responsibility. “I built the group,” Waltz told Fox News, adding that it was “embarrassing”.

He said he had asked Elon Musk, Tech Billionaire and Trump Ally, to have error help. In addition, the legislators of the congress demanded an investigation and toasted the participants in the cat in the hearings. Hegseth is Cope with a probe of the Inspector General of the United States Ministry of Defense on his use of the signal.

Trump finally said he would “examine” the problem.

It is not clear if the new reports are the results of these surveys.