Mike Waltz assumes responsibility for military plans escape

The US President’s National Security Counselor, who created the group on the Signal Social Network to discuss military plans and which included a journalist, took responsibility on Tuesday.

“I take full responsibility. I created this group,” Mike Waltz admitted to Fox News station in his first interview since the revelations. Waltz suggested that he may have kept the journalist’s number on his phone, thinking he belonged to someone else.

The chief of writing of The Atlantic magazine published, on Monday, a long article in which he detailed the impressions between the highs of the US federal officials about a Military Attack plan to the Houthis rebels in Yemen, in a group of the digital Signal Message Service. Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the group by mistake.

The White House confirmed the authenticity of the message chain, but also stated that no confidential information had not been revealed.

The director of CIA (Central Information Agency), the main US external secret service agency, confirmed, for its part, the presence in this circle, but defended what it designated as the “authorized and legal” use of Signal application.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, minimized the exchange of messages, considering that it is « a small failure », noting that it was « the only two-month failure » of its presidency. At the same time, Democrats criticize US Administration in the Senate for dealing with highly sensitive information carefully.

Speaking to NBC News, Trump said the lapse “was not serious” and expressed continuous support to the National Security Counselor.

But the use of the application of sign messages to discuss a sensitive operation exposed the presidency to fierce criticism by Democratic legislators, who expressed indignation from the insistence of the White House and the high administration officials that no confidential information was shared.