After the « signalgate », the national security advisor Mike Waltz uses his private Gmail account for official conversations – Liberation
Mike Waltz continues to be talked about. The national security advisor, one of the highest officials of the US administration, used his private Gmail account for official conversations, revealed on Tuesday, April 1 Washington Post. This information occurs a week after the revelation of a security flaw, when President Donald Trump’s relatives discussed attacks on the Houthis, Yemen, on signal messaging, with a journalist. Gmail, the Google email service, is even less secure than the encrypted signal messages, underlines the Washington Post.
According to the American daily, the national security advisor, the main personality questioned in the « Signalgate » for incorporating Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine To the conversation, disseminated non -confidential information but all the same sensitive to his email account, such as his agenda and other working documents.
On the other hand, one of his employees used the Gmail service « For highly technical conversations with colleagues from other administrations relating to sensitive military positions and powerful armaments systems linked to an in progress conflict ”, writes the newspaper. THE Washington Post said he was based on interviews with three officials and having consulted emails emanating from the services of Mike Waltz.
In a press release, the spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) Brian Hughes assured that the advisor had « Never sent classified documents to his personal email account or to any unsecured platform ». « The incident is closed and the president continues to trust his national security advisor », said spokeswoman for the American presidency, Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday, about the « signalgate », before the latest revelations of the revelations Post. However, the American media reports that a meeting took place last Wednesday with Donald Trump and his close circle at the White House to discuss a potential dismissal for this error. According to a source of Washington PostMike Waltz would have managed to keep his post because the American president did not want to give « A scalp with the liberal press ».
Ironically, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump had abundantly accused his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton of having used his personal mailbox when she was Secretary of State (between 2009 and 2013), in place of a secure government server. She had never been prosecuted for this case.
German magazine Der Spiegel had also said on Thursday March 27 that The private contact details of several of these senior officials were easily accessible on the internet. These are those of the national security advisor Mike Waltz, the head of American intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and of the head of the pentagon Pete Hegseth. The German newspaper explains that it has carried out internet research that allowed him to access mobile phone numbers, electronic addresses and, in some cases, passwords.
Mike Waltz, 51, is one of the faces of foreign policy in the United States. He was for example in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, March 11, for Negotiate the conditions for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Faithful of Donald Trump for a long time, the appointment in November devoted the rise of a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and elected Republican in the House of Representatives since 2018, after having made a fortune with his consulting and defense training company (Metis Solutions). Specialist in security subjects, he sat in commissions in charge of the armed forces and intelligence and was also an advisor to the former vice-president of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney. It has long been considered rather a neoconservative, an interventionist, far from the positions « America First » of the current President of the United States.
