The investigation seeks to uncover how The Atlanticâs editor accessed a sensitive Signal chat with top U.S. security officials.
The White House said Wednesday that Elon Musk is now involved in the high-profile investigation into how the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat with top U.S. national security officials, amid ongoing scrutiny over the potential exposure of sensitive military discussions.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Muskâs participation during a March 26 briefing when asked who was leading the probe into the Signal mishap.
âThe National Security Council, the White House Counselâs Office, and also yes, Elon Muskâs team,â Leavitt said. âElon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat, again to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.â
The group chat, titled âHouthi PC small group,â included senior Trump administration officials, including national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and others.
While Waltz initially suggested the addition of Goldberg might have been due to a contact mix-up, he said he had never met Goldberg and didnât know how his number appeared in his phone.
âI can tell you 100 percent I donât know this guy. I know him by his horrible reputation,â he said, referring to The Atlanticâs previous reporting on President Donald Trump. âAnd I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I donât text him.â
Waltz added that the investigation into the incident will include determining how Goldberg ended up being added to the Signal chat. âIt looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something weâre trying to figure out,â he said.
Trump has continued to back Waltz, calling him âa good manâ who âlearned a lesson.â Trump said the issue likely stemmed from a technical glitch and noted that while Signal was used for its speed, the administration may move away from the encrypted messaging platform going forward.
âWe probably wonât be using it very much,â he told reporters. âI donât think itâs something weâre looking forward to using again.â
The White House has said that no classified information was shared in the chat, a claim echoed by Hegseth, Ratcliffe, and Gabbard during Senate and House Intelligence Committee hearings this week.
âThere is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared,â the article stated.
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