U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who has faced calls to resign over his role in the recent Yemen chat group scandal, saw renewed scrutiny Tuesday after the Washington Post reported on his usage of Gmail for official work.
The newspaper also said that one of Waltz's senior aides used Gmail to discuss military positions and weapons systems, reigniting questions over the handling of sensitive communications inside President Donald Trump's administration.
Waltz had his schedule and other work documents sent to his account on the Google email service, the Washington Post reported.
The White House later confirmed that Waltz had "received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email," but that he had "cc'd government accounts" since the start of the Trump administration to satisfy record retention laws.
Waltz "has never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform," said National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes, who blasted the story as "the latest attempt to distract the American people from President Trump's successful national security agenda."
Hughes said he could not respond to the Washington Post report about Waltz's aide, claiming the newspaper had not shared the sensitive information with the White House.
"Any correspondence containing classified material must only be sent through secure channels and all NSC staff are informed of this," he said.
Waltz last month provoked an embarrassing saga for the Trump administration after he inadvertently added The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief to a group chat on Signal, a commercially available messaging app, in which air strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels were discussed.
Officials including Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the chat to talk about details of the air strike timings and intelligence, unaware that the highly sensitive information was being simultaneously read by a member of the media.
Waltz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last week that he took "full responsibility" for the breach, saying: "I built the group; my job is to make sure everything's coordinated."
Trump has rejected calls to sack Waltz or Hegseth and branded the scandal a "witch hunt."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt meanwhile told journalists on Tuesday that "the case is closed, and the president continues to have confidence in his national security advisor."
But the Gmail revelations could add to pressure for Waltz's removal from office.
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27 Comments
Underworld
But her emails!
What hypocrisy.
Yrral
Republican barely win house seat in Florida,he out of job and Musk flaming out in Wisconsin election
Wasabi
So much professionalism from the best of trump team....
BB
Amateur hour in the West Wing, a new (black) comedy show. Don't miss it!
lincolnman
Just your typical incompetent MAGA Moron...and his SECDEF boss is a drunk and a pervert...
Walz and Hegseth have been doing the MAGA-two-step trying to dodge and deflect the fact that they both shared sensitive classified information that exposed our troops to danger...
The most hilarious part is his assertion that somehow Goldberg's phone number was "sucked up" into his phone...ROFL. Then they try to blame Goldberg who did nothing other than receive the email Walz and Hegseth sent...and not one of them or the other MAGA mental midgets on the chat saw that Goldberg was on the cc list...
This one ain't going away - it's much more serious than "her emails" - this was a summary of the Operations Order - the authorization to attack with specific targets - that's always classified TS or higher.
This guy and his boss are on borrowed time - they'll both get the MAGA heave-ho soon....ala Pence and Barr....
u_s__reamer
Only "the best people" for the felon whose limited vocabulary holds "best" as a synonym for "loyal" (to the Donald). The revolving door of the Trump II administration is starting to turn with the clueless Waltz soon to be given the bum's rush out of the White House.
Jimizo
Stop giving jobs to incompetent people.
Simple.
Blacklabel
Sounds like a bunch of nothing to try to resurrect the deceased “someone mailed him to his Gmail. He sent a copy to his government address for records retention. That’s how it’s done.
WA4TKG
I just LOVE the Internet. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, we’re supposed to
be “Outraged”
https://youtu.be/WIARMMtUdZQ?si=BHDwwxxosvNV4bBg
Yrral
Democrats win Wisconsin judicial seat
Underworld
Blacklabel
Sounds insecure. Isn't that why you said "Lock Her Up" about Hillary's emails?
Aren't there two standards here?
WoodyLee
And the drama continues, who is next going put out Iran Attack Plans for the world to read and share!?
Tokyo Guy
Like someone said on social media earlier, "I can't wait for nobody to do anything about this".
isabelle
Wasn't this guy a green beret?
How can he have so little idea of OPSEC and COMSEC?
lincolnman
Even though I would have been court-martialed and discharged if I had sione something like this during my military career, part of me wants Walz to hang around...
I mean, he'll just keep adding people like Goldberg and Rachel Maddow and Wolf Blitzer to his chats, and we can find out more about all the corruption and incompetence of this criminal administration...
Give them the rope, they've proved they can hang themselves...
Blacklabel
no he doesn’t have his own server at home with a printer and none of the mails were classified.
chatanista
Possible that Waltz might be thrown under the bus eventually.
I'veSeenFootage
So much "winning".
Mocheake
What's next for this sideshow? Maybe they can try snail mail and see how that turns out. That's DT's DEI: Diversely but Equally Incompetent.
patkim
The fact is that any military personnel would be punished and facing a court martial, and at the very least an investigation if they did such an act. Holding people in office to the same standards should be common sense. So if Trump and his administration deems what they did as just a mistake and that no investigation and punishment should be done, should we go ahead and allow all military personnel to do the same? A true leader leads by example.
Yrral
Trump do not .have any moral standards
Blacklabel
yes it is.
Bob Fosse
Was Hillary ‘national security advisor’?
Shouldn’t somebody with this job title have a basic understanding of you know security.
lincolnman
More bad news from a Trump Defense Dept pick....
"President Donald Trump’s pick to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused to lie for the president and instead threw his prospective boss under the bus at a confirmation hearing.
Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine told a Senate committee on Tuesday morning he was not wearing a red MAGA hat when he first met Trump in Iraq in 2018—despite the president claiming he was.
“For 34 years, I’ve upheld my oath of office and my commitment to my commission,” Caine told Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican, according to Politico. “And I have never worn any political merchandise.”
That explanation, if true, would mean the president’s assertion—that Caine told him he loves him and that he would “kill for you, sir”—before slapping on a MAGA cap, is a bunch of bull.
Instead, the president’s Joint Chiefs pick told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he suspects Trump **did have that interaction that day, but it was with someone else at Al Asad air base.**
“I went back and listened to those tapes, and I think the president was actually talking about somebody else,” Caine said. “And I’ve never worn any political merchandise or said anything to that effect.”
ROFL...So Trump's new handpicked CJCS testifies that he is 1) a liar, and 2) so demented he can't remember who he talked to...
Donald will be asking Malley to come back soon....LMAO....
Blacklabel
She was a Cabinet member same as Waltz.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Sounds insecure. Isn't that why you said "Lock Her Up" about Hillary's emails?
No, it's much worse. Rather than being private, it's a server owned by Google. Who know's who has access to it? We know Google do.
How do we know? None of Hillary's mails were classified.
Blacklabel
not sure why you keep posting about @the Defense Department”.
do you not know what job Waltz even has?