How was Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to a Signal Group-Chat with Trump administration officials who have discussed their plans for an air raid in Yemen?
The simplest explanation: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had Goldberg kept contact in his phone and accidentally added him. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s telephone number was’ sucked into ‘from another contact, Goldberg Spotted:’ This is not ‘the matrix’.
But according to the Guardian, an internal investigation Led by the Information Technology Office of the White House concluded that there was something more complicated, with an iPhone-automatic suggestion that played a key role: after Goldberg e-mailed the White House for comment on a story, a spokesman for Trump, Brian Hughes, the content of Goldberg’s e-mail to Waltz.
As a result, the iPhone from Waltz offered a “contact suggestion update” that ultimately saved the telephone number of Goldberg under Hughes’ name. When Waltz Hughes – now a spokesperson for the National Security Council – tried to add to the chat, he would add Goldberg instead.
For his part, Goldberg said: “I’m not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz, except that I know him and spoke to him.”