Mike Waltz, Trump’s former national security adviser who was removed from his post in May following the “Signalgate” scandal, blamed the Biden administration while explaining his use of Signal, the commercially available encrypted app, to discuss a sensitive military operation.
While testifying at a Senate hearing on his nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday, Waltz was asked about the potential national security breach that occurred when he inadvertently added The Atlantic editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a Signal group chat with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and other government officials to discuss a military operation in Yemen.
