How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat

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Source: The Guardian

Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat

Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Sun 6 Apr 2025 14.54 BST
First published on Sun 6 Apr 2025 13.34 BST

Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz included a journalist in the Signal group chat about plans for US strikes in Yemen after he mistakenly saved his number months before under the contact of someone else he intended to add, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The mistake was one of several missteps that came to light in the White House’s internal investigation, which showed a series of compounding slips that started during the 2024 campaign and went unnoticed until Waltz created the group chat last month.

Trump briefly considered firing Waltz over the episode, more angered by the fact that Waltz had the number of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic – a magazine he despises – than the fact that the military operation discussion took place on an unclassified system such as Signal.

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According to three people briefed on the internal investigation, Goldberg had emailed the campaign about a story that criticized Trump for his attitude towards wounded service members. To push back against the story, the campaign enlisted the help of Waltz, their national security surrogate.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened

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1. Internal investigation

Like the one that declared that a man committed suicide with 17 gunshot wounds in his back.

With police revolvers.

I've seen too many "internal investigations"