US national security adviser Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for the leak of classified information about the military attack. He admitted that he was responsible for adding a journalist to a "chat group" where plans for a military attack on Yemen were discussed.
The 'chat group' created on the social network Signal included high-ranking officials including US Vice President JD Vance. Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was also added to the chat group.
Goldberg said that a user named Mike Waltz had accidentally added himself to Signal Chat. I take full responsibility. I made the group," Waltz told Fox News on Tuesday. "It's embarrassing."
US President Donald Trump and intelligence chiefs have said public information on the chat group poses no security risk and no classified material is being shared. But the leaders of the opposition Democratic Party as well as some Republican Party leaders and MPs have called for an investigation saying that this issue is serious.
Previously, Goldberg wrote an article and said that he had access to secret plans for weapons, bomb attacks and targets until two hours before the airstrikes in Yemen. But he did not disclose that information in the article.
Waltz couldn't explain how Goldberg got into the chat in an interview with Fox News. But he said that no employee under him was responsible. He claims that Goldberg joined the group chat because there should be another officer.
"We have great technology to see how this happened," Waltz said. He claims that he does not have Goldberg's number in his phone. "I can tell you 100 percent, I don't know this man," Waltz said. Waltz said he also spoke with Elon Musk to help figure out how that happened.
