Trump’s security advisor Waltz came under pressure in the affair around the explosive signal group chat. Now the Washington Post reports on a problem with his email.
The national security advisor of US President Donald Trump, Mike Waltz, is said to have taken the widespread Google service Gmail in some cases instead of encrypted emails. This is reported by the Washington Post. The newspaper pointed out that Gmail was much more insecure for government information than the encrypted Messenger app Signal, about which leading government members had discussed an attack on the Huthi militia in Yemen.
A high-ranking Waltz employee on the National Security Council NSC therefore used the commercial e-mail service for agreements with colleagues in other government agencies who were concerned with military positions and powerful weapon systems in connection with an ongoing conflict, as the newspaper reported. Waltz himself sent fewer secret information about his private Gmail user account, but still not harmless, such as its schedule or work documents, the newspaper reported. The NSC spokesman told the Washington Post that he had no evidence that Waltz had used his personal email for such purposes.
The newspaper refers to unnamed sources in the department and reports that it has some emails. Waltz had admitted that he was who accidentally invited a journalist to the secret signal group to the Yemen attack. The journalist, “Atlantic” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, then made the chats public.
Trump had publicly stood behind the members of the chat group several times, but the “New York Times” had reported that he was not as firmly standing as his security advisor as he publicly claimed. “Should I fire him?” He is said to have asked his consultants.