USA Not just a signal - Trump adviser Waltz to use Gmail
The National Security Advisor to US President Donald Trump, Mike Waltz, is said to have used the widely used Google service Gmail instead of encrypted emails in some cases.
01.04.2025, 22:57
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This was reported by the Washington Post. The newspaper pointed out that Gmail is significantly less secure for government information than the encrypted messenger app Signal, which was used by leading members of the government to coordinate an attack on the Houthi militia in Yemen.
A high-ranking Waltz employee at the National Security Council (NSC) used the commercial email service to discuss military positions and powerful weapons systems related to an ongoing conflict with colleagues in other government agencies, the newspaper reported. Waltz himself sent less classified information through his private Gmail account, but still sent information that was not innocuous, such as his schedule or work documents, the newspaper reported. The NSC spokesman told the Washington Post that he had no evidence that Waltz had used his personal email for such purposes.
The newspaper referred to unnamed sources in the department and reported that it had some of the emails in question. Waltz had admitted that it was he who had probably inadvertently invited a journalist to the secret signal group on the Yemen attack. The journalist, "Atlantic" editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, then made the chats public.
Trump had publicly backed the members of the chat group on several occasions, but the New York Times had reported that he was not as committed to his security adviser as he publicly claimed. "Should I fire him?" he is said to have asked his advisers.
