Waltz, Staff Used Gmail for Government Communications

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Members of President Donald Trump's National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.

Posted by qcp at 08:59 AM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and other senior officials used their personal Gmail account for government business, The Washington Post reports.[image or embed]
— Axios (@axios.com) April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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LOCK HIM UP!!!

OCU

#1 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-04-01 04:46 PM

Trumpers will have their (R)easons for not caring.

US national security is completely at rock bottom. Again, thank you Republican voters for turning America into a vassal state of the Russian oligarchs headed by Vladimir Putin. Gut arbet! cdn.images.express.co.uk

Republicans happy to let Trump fly the plane into the World Trade Center.

And National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was in US Army Special Forces fighting the Taliban and HQN, now conducting court-martial level offenses. F#@%ng unbelievable.

... Waltz, who has recently taken responsibility for accidentally adding a high profile journalist to a Signal group chat discussing sensitive military attack plans in Yemen, shared his schedule and other work documents on Gmail, sources told the Post. ...

Oh, this ain't good.

I mean, have cut back my use of gmail because of my concerns about where the info ultimately goes.

Another view ...

Trump Regime Used Gmail Accounts to Discuss Sensitive Plans: Report
gizmodo.com

... But her emails.

Top national security officials at the White House, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have sometimes been using regular Gmail accounts to discuss highly sensitive military operations, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted like more secure government systems available to officials like Waltz and can be intercepted by foreign adversaries.

The Gmail accounts were used to discuss "sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict," according to the Post, citing three unnamed government officials and emails reviewed firsthand by the newspaper. Personal email accounts of any kind are not considered a secure way to communicate sensitive information, though National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told the Post that no classified information was transmitted over insecure channels. ...

@#8 ... though National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told the Post that no classified information was transmitted over insecure channels. ...

OK, my view is that the top Security officials of the Trump admin, and even Pres Trump, have already shown that they have little regard for classified information.

So, why should this comment by spokesperson Hughes be even the slightest believable?

@#9 ... OK, my view is that the top Security officials of the Trump admin, and even Pres Trump, have already shown that they have little regard for classified information. ...

For example ...

'Horrified' Israeli intel officials were shouting at US counterparts' over Trump leak (2017)
www.timesofisrael.com

... US President Donald Trump's reported sharing of a highly classified Israeli tip with Russia led to incredibly tense meetings between Israeli and American intelligence officials, Foreign Policy Magazine reported Friday.

The Israelis reportedly shouted at their US counterparts, demanding an explanation for Trump's actions, according to the magazine, which quoted a US defense official.

"To them, it's horrifying," the official said. "Their first question was: What is going on? What is this?'"

Meeting Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to Washington in the Oval Office on May 10, Trump shared intelligence about an Islamic State threat involving laptops carried on airplanes, according to a senior US official.

ABC News reported that the information came specifically from a spy embedded in the terrorist group on behalf of Israel, and that Trump's reported leak had placed the person's life at risk. ...

Another ...

Israel complains about SignalGate leak after giving US key intelligence used in Houthi strike: report
nypost.com

... Israel provided the US with critical intelligence from an on-the-ground source in Yemen that was later leaked as part of the SignalGate scandal, according to a report.

In the Signal messages, national security adviser Mike Waltz told top Trump administration officials that intelligence had a "positive ID" of the Houthis' "top missile guy" entering a building that was hit in the US airstrikes.

That message was revealed by the Atlantic this week after its editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to a private Signal chat on March 11 to plan out the strike.

Privately, Israeli officials complained to Washington that Waltz's message about that intelligence went public, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official. ...