Michael Waltz, national security adviser, accepted full responsibility for a serious breach of national security involving a group chat on Signal that included a journalist. This incident, revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, involved high-profile officials discussing sensitive military strategies about airstrikes in Yemen. Waltz acknowledged the mistake yet criticized Goldberg while maintaining that the error's specifics were still unclear. He consulted with technical experts, suggesting a potential contact name mix-up as the cause of the journalist's unauthorized presence in the conversation.
Waltz said he took full responsibility for the group chat that leaked sensitive information, while also deflecting blame onto technical issues.
Waltz remarked on the bizarre nature of adding a journalist to a high-security discussion, likening it to confusion over contact names.
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