Mike Waltz: I take"full responsibility" but Goldberg could've tricked his way into the chat & ELON will investigate

[highplainsdem]

I wondered how soon they'd get around to blaming Jeffrey Goldberg.

I started checking news and Bluesky posts this evening and immediately ran into conflicting info on what Waltz was saying.

Aaron Rupar had video from the Ingraham Angle with this comment in a Bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llaf6bhasf2w

Wow — Mike Waltz on Fox News suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow schemed his way into the Signal group instead of just being invited by accident

Meanwhile The Independent ran with this headline - "Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ for leaked Trump administration Signal chat about Yemen strike" - which I did NOT post in LBN because it's so misleading. The article
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-waltz-apology-yemen-signal-b2721561.html
doesn't show how little reponsibility Waltz is taking till the third paragraph:

National security advisor Mike Waltz said he accepted “full responsibility” for a high-level Trump administration planning chat about strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen being accidentally shared with a top journalist from The Atlantic.

"I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz told Fox News’s Ingraham Angle on Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

Waltz went on to call Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote a widely read article claiming Waltz added him to a Signal group discussing the strikes, was a “loser” who may have “deliberately” tricked someone in the administration into getting access to the chat.

I was looking for articles with more of what Waltz said and found the most quotes from that show in the NY Post, which I'm quoting only because the conspiracy theory he's setting up is dangerous and DUers should be aware of it.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/national-security-adviser-mike-waltz-takes-full-responsibility-for-embarrassing-signal-leak/

“Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else’s number there?” Waltz began.

“So, of course I didn’t see this loser in the group,” he continued, referring to Goldberg, who is viewed by many as an antagonist of Trump. “It looked like someone else.

“Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened by some other technical means is something we’re trying to figure out.”

-snip-

“I just talked to Elon on the way here,” Waltz said. “We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”
-snip-

Waltz then told Ingraham, "I can tell you for 100% — I don’t know this guy." And he's desperate that people believe him because otherwise the most likely reason Waltz had contact info for Jeffrey Goldberg was that Waltz has leaked to the press in the past and has some contact info handy.

[SheltieLover]

1. They immediately started blaming Goldberg.

Always everyone else's fault.

[highplainsdem]

7. Their initial sliming of Goldberg was accusing him of past "hoaxes" that weren't hoaxes. This is the

first I've heard of them trying to suggest he was deliberately spying on them through supposedly getting his number onto Waltz's phone under another person's name.

[Skittles]

2. "Elon will investigate"

[John1956PA]

8. Just like when Trump stated it was generous of Putin to offer to investigate dirty deeds.

I remember that joint conference which Trump and Putin gave to the press in Helsinki about six tears ago. That is when Trump stated that he took Putin's word over that of the FBI with regard to claims of election meddling.

[Johonny]

3. Moron hires moron to investigate his moronic

Behavior. Hint: they will blame the messenger.

[crimycarny]

4. The whole point is to change the narrative from the fact they were using Signal in the first place

Gotta hand it to the GOP, they know how to control the media narrative. The fact that Greenberg was accidentally invited to the chat is NOT the issue, it's the cherry on the top. The biggest issue is the fact that they were using Signal in the first place. I hope the media doesn't crawl down this rabbit hole and make the issue about Greenberg.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I don't think "taking full responsibility" means what he thinks it means.

Thanks for the thread highplainsdem

[John1956PA]

12. Waltz goes on Faux to change his story, thereby causing the viewers to get enraged.

Faux viewers will be enraged against Goldberg for perpetrating some nefarious deed which did not occur. Where is the integrity of Waltz, who is supposedly an upstanding national treasure?

[tulipsandroses]

6. Wait what?? These are the people in charge of protecting the country. The national security advisor is saying he was

tricked by a lone journalist?? How embarrassing.
If we are to believe this nonsense, then he should resign. He cannot protect the country. If it was that easy for a journalist to fool him, then what happens when trained foreign operatives are involved?

You know what - let's have congressional hearings on this. If he is so sure he was tricked. Let's get everyone involved under oath.

[orangecrush]

10. This

[Abolishinist]

21. Well of course. If a 'lone' journalist could somehow trick his way in,

who in their right mind could not come to the more than obvious conclusion that a Putin or anyone else down the line, including my next-door neighbor, could do the same.

[DET]

9. 'Full Responsibility'

Watch for Goldberg to be imprisoned for his ‘treasonous’ behavior.

[Prairie Gates]

11. Elon is now investigating intelligence breaches? WTAF?

How is any of this happening?



This halfwit invited a journalist to what was already an illegal and boneheaded group chat on private phones about classified material. Now Elon's in volved?

Honestly, I had to check whether this was parody. Wait. Is it? It has to be, right?

[spanone]

13. Mr. Goldberg, release the contents, they all swore there are no classified documents

Call their bluff. trmp is calling you a sleazebag.

[Walleye]

14. Maybe he is showing responsibility that they don't. He doesn't want to put anyone's lives in danger because of leaks

Oh, and Mr. waltz, full responsibility would be resigning immediately. Don’t pee on us and tell us it’s raining.

[chowder66]

15. Full responsibility would mean that you have resigned.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. I'm sorry but if it was that easy for some random journalist

to hack into a high level war planning discussion then that breach of security is their fault only. Even if Goldberg was some kind of expert hacker.

There are secure systems in place for that kind of thing, and it's entirely on them if they failed to use them.

I'm afraid that basic logic has vanished from discourse in this country.

[Norrrm]

17. Yes. If he tricked his way into the chat, that is admitting weak security.

It just doesn't show them in a good light at all.

It would be really easy for Putin.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Putin's already in there. I'm pretty sure that anything Tulsi hears

gets piped straight to the Kremlin.

[rickyhall]

19. We've all made contact mistakes.

But most of us aren't into NATIONAL SECURITY.

[moondust]

20. Aggressive idiot.

Goldberg has proof or he wouldn't risk the embarrassment.

[ecstatic]

22. why is he still digging? FFS, STFU already! Dude sounds dumber

with each excuse and deflection! Not exactly confidence inspiring. He's clearly too dumb to be heading up anything!