Waltz Reportedly Archived Signal Messages on Israeli Intelligence-Linked App

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https://truthout.org/articles/waltz-reportedly-archived-signal-messages-on-israeli-intelligence-linked-app/

Waltz Reportedly Archived Signal Messages on Israeli Intelligence-Linked App

A picture of Waltz’s phone showed him using an app founded by a former Israeli intelligence official.

By Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT
Published May 2, 2025

Former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz archived official government messages sent on Signal through an Israeli app with strong ties to Israeli intelligence and military, new reporting reveals, exposing a glaring data security vulnerability within the top ranks of the Trump administration.

On Thursday, a picture of Waltz’s phone in a cabinet meeting published by Reuters circulated on social media, with users noting that it appeared to show Waltz on the encrypted messaging app, Signal. The screen showed various message chains that appeared to be with figures like Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

However, as some journalists noted, a banner at the bottom of the screen showed that Waltz was using a companion app made by a firm called TeleMessage, which allows users to archive messages on Signal, where users can use settings to auto erase messages. This may be Waltz’s answer to attorneys suing the United States over officials like Waltz seemingly using Signal to discuss sensitive military and other top-level information to evade requirements for government records to be archived.

As Drop Site reported on Friday, TeleMessage is an Israeli firm founded by a former Israeli military intelligence official who was a leader in “one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units,” his biography says.

In fact, many of TeleMessage’s executives and top employees have backgrounds within Israeli military intelligence, with experience in technology and computers within those roles. One employee served within Unit 8200, which has been likened to the U.S.’s National Security Agency and labeled as a spy agency.

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(Using the app in the kremlin… who’s spying on whom…?)

[David__77]

1. Not surprising. Seems like an exceptionally dangerous person to be involved in national security.