Trump advisor owns up to Yemen chat leak blunder
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has taken “full responsibility” for mistakenly adding a journalist to a private Signal group discussing a planned U.S. military strike in Yemen.
Speaking on Fox News, Waltz called it “embarrassing” and vowed to “get to the bottom of it.”
The chat group, named “Houthi PC small group,” included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Editor of The Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, said he accidentally was added to the group on March 13 after connecting with a Waltz-linked account.
Waltz slammed Goldberg, calling him “the bottom scum of journalists,” and denied knowing him personally.
President Donald Trump brushed off the incident, saying Waltz won’t be fired and called the leak of sensitive military information “a mistake.”
Democrats reacted sharply to the error.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner called it “sloppy, careless, and incompetent.”
The leak has sparked national security concerns and questions about internal communications within Trump’s inner circle.
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