Wednesday, July 16, 2025

UN amb nominee Waltz downplays 'Signalgate' controversy

U.N. ambassador nominee Mike Waltz denied any sensitive information was shared during a controversial mobile app chat in March while undergoing a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday.

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... The hearing was the first Congressional appearance by Waltz since his controversial participation in a Signal app chat that inadvertently included a journalist while discussing a pending military operation in March against Houthi targets in Yemen.

Waltz was the Trump administration's national security adviser when the chat occurred, but no mention of the Signal chat occurred until past the hearing's first hour.

Sen. Chris -----, D-Del., raised using the Signal app to discuss classified matters, which since has been dubbed "Signalgate."

Waltz said no classified information was shared during the discussion that accidentally included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

"That engagement was driven by and recommended by the CyberSecurity Infrastructure Security Agency [and] by the Biden administration," Waltz said, as reported by ABC News. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-16 12:16 AM

@#1 ... That engagement was driven by and recommended by the CyberSecurity Infrastructure Security Agency [and] by the Biden administration," ...

So, the usual [lame excuse] of blaming it on the Biden admin, instead of taking responsibility for what he did?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-16 12:19 AM

"So, the usual [lame excuse] of blaming it on the Biden admin"

Hey, remember Biden and the Democrats, and how we told you were evil and incompetent and hiding the Epstein Files?
Yeah, we didn't check on their security stuff at the highest levels when we took over.
We figured they had everything locked down tight, seeing as they were so good at running the country.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-16 12:24 AM

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