Jeffrey Goldberg does not comment on his relationship with Mike Waltz after the sign chat leakage

Atlantic Editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, has nothing to say about his relationship with National Security Adviser Mike Walz, who He added to him unintentionally For a group chat about the United States’ highly sensitive plans to bomb Yemen a few days ago.

“I will not comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz,” Goldberg told CBS News in an interview on Wednesday.

Waltz claimed that he “did not meet” with Goldberg, and would not be able to choose him from the police squad and heard his reputation, describing him “the scum of the lower journalists.” But the pictures appeared connected Earlier on Wednesday, both at an event at the French embassy in 2021.

Goldberg said of the pictures: “If we see your eyebrows together, I think your eyebrows see them together,” Goldberg said.

Waltz also suggested that Goldberg somehow added itself to the sign chat that also included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete HegSeth – or that some other technical incidents that led to the breach. Goldberg called the “crazy” claims.

“This is what happened on March 11,” Goldberg continued. “I received a request for a message from Michael Waltz. I accepted the request for the message. That’s what happened.” The indication only allows users to add people to chat groups according to the phone number, a quick response code, or the username for the person they want to add. The Atlantic story, published on Wednesday, showed a group screenshot including Waltz as an official and “JG” as a member of the small Houthi PC collection.

Goldberg said: “If you are a thorny figure, then why are I in Mike Waltz? Why does he have a phone number? Why is he including this chat?

Goldberg did not publish the contents of the message interconnection index for more than a week after Yemen’s strikes. On Monday, a piece In detail how he was added to the 18 -people chat and parts of the conversation were distinguished about plans to bomb Houthi targets, instead of quoting them directly, noting his fears that the details were very sensitive to publication. But after the group of chat members and President Trump again and again to reject The information, Goldberg, was classified, after checking the administration to see if the officials want anything that has been revised, and published Text messages About strikes on Wednesday.

Additional messages showed that Higseth provided detailed information to the group on strikes targeting the Houthi rebels earlier this month, including a timetable for the date of quitting combat aircraft and the type of weapons that will be used.

Goldberg said it was in the interest of the public to obtain information and be able to judge the accident themselves.

“The public has the right to find out whether there is a tremendous security breach in the United States National Security Agency. There is clear evidence that national security officials are talking about intelligence information in an actual time and military information on the application of an open source correspondence that they are not supposed to use for this type of things,” Goldberg said. “When the reporters discover a huge violation of national security, it is our duty to inform the public.”

Ed Okif

Ed Ociv is CBS News, the White House chief and political correspondent. He previously worked in the Washington Post, which covers presidential campaigns, Congress and federal agencies. His primary focus is on President Biden, Vice President Harris and political issues throughout the country.