«We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened,» Waltz said.
National security advisor Mike Waltz has said that Elon Musk is investigating how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal group chat with U.S. administration officials in which officials discussed sensitive military plans.Why It Matters
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, said in an article published on Monday that Waltz had mistakenly invited him to a chat with White House national security team members.
According to Goldberg, officials in the chat shared classified details about the Pentagon’s plan to carry out military airstrikes against the Houthi militant group in Yemen, which has been attacking Western vessels in the Red Sea for more than a year.
The apparent security breach has drawn criticism from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have called for an investigation into how the leak happened and how the administration will ensure similar incidents do not occur again.What To Know
On Tuesday, Waltz said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle that Musk, who has been advising the Trump administration, was looking into the breach.
