This week, The Atlantic published An astonishing article on a group signal cat which included the best -classified officials of the military community and American intelligence, coordinating and performing a bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of The Atlantic And the author of the article was labeled in the cat by the national security advisor Michael Waltz, an error which offered the EIC a seat at the forefront of the officials as high as the Secretary of Defense and the vice-president debating the decision. Once the attack plans for Yemen have been revealed, Goldberg chose to withdraw from the group cat, and before overthrowing the course after the public counterposter, he censored certain parts of the conversation for national security grounds.
In a telephone interview Tuesday with NBC NewsPresident Trump seemed to defend his national security advisor, saying to the press: “Michael Waltz learned a lesson, and he is a good man”, adding that “he was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staff member had his number there. ”
If Waltz has fully learned his lesson seems to be more an open question, especially given the PerspectiveThe discovery of his personal vessel account remains public, with some 300 “friends” actively listed on his profile. And although Goldberg does not appear in the Waltz Venmo contact list, several other journalists do, according to a Perspective goodbye.
About ten minutes after asking for comments, Michael Waltz’s account disappeared from Venmo. Wired was the First to report the news.
In a statement, the spokesman for the National Security Council, James Hewitt, said: “NSA Waltz was previously a member of the US Congress and a contributor to Fox News. He has relationships with people who work in the media. There should not be surprising here. ”
Like the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose venmo i account reported on Several weeks ago, Waltz’s account was never put in private, showing hundreds of names that are probably in his phone as contacts, some of which may or may not have exchanged cash transfers. Unlike Goldberg, we are not going to explain and revise this information accessible to the public.
What remained largely undisputed in the conversation surrounding the Atlantic The article is the symbiotic relationship between the higher government and the senior officials and their friends in the media. After having examined the information now taken out in the exchange of signals, it seems well in the field of the possibility that the bombing sequence is shared simultaneously or directly after the attack on the attack with a friendly media – perhaps even The Atlantic– To score political points. This is one of the operational tactics of the Blob: the agglomeration of former generals, reflection groups, ex-officials, lobbyists and the media, all working to present a clean narrative on national security subjects.
What distinguishes this week’s incident is that the dance usually very choreographed and invisible between journalist and reported was exposed so that everyone can see. And Venmo de Waltz shows that Goldberg is not the only journalist to participate in this dance with him. In addition to the former members of the Congress, scholars of the reflection group, and even of the apparent winner of the Miss Florida competition, Venmo of Mike Waltz shows that the media of information partisans of the left and the law regularly plunge their spouts into the hollow of the White House, as the fact that each journalist of the major network the fact so that the reporter of the editors and highly massacle can pump.
Unsurprisingly, Fox News holds the highest head number for journalists from Mike Waltz’s phone. Griff Jenkins, whose Fox.com biography lists him as “a national correspondent based in Washington for Fox News Channel (FNC) and as co-animated Fox News Live”, is joined on the list by Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox and friends. Porter Berry, president and editor -in -chief of Fox News Digital, also cut.
But right -of -right journalists are not the only ones represented in the Waltz Venmo list, which seems to be less than “clean on OPSEC”, as the defense secretary wrote in the group group who disclosed this week.
Leland Vittert, a national correspondent for Newsnation, is also listed on the digital account, like Brianna Keilar, an American journalist who is currently co-albor of publishing after the afternoon of CNN News Central, a president of the Trump network regularly decreases as false news.
Lauren Peikoff, executive producer of MSNBC, is also in the contacts of Waltz. Earlier this year, Trump tweeted on the network: “Wow!” Rachel Maddow has horrible notes. She will be very soon.
But in the midst of the broadcasters, producers and speaking heads, a name stands out from the crowd: Judith Miller, who was briefly dismissed from The New York Times After it was revealed that his report on the war in Iraq was categorically false and obtained almost a word for the vice-president Dick Cheney. His dismissal was the price paid for the confrontation too close to an administration in the process of war, and visiting intelligence reports and basic facts with the same blood glasses as those with their fingers on the button.
Wednesday, Waltz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “I do not know this type”, in reference to Goldberg, adding: “I know it by its horrible reputation and it is really the lower scum of journalists. I know him in the sense that he hates the president.
The public of Waltz, Venmo, tells a different story on the will of the head of the NSC to engage in a familiar rotation in the service of more war and carnage. After a few products, Goldberg decided that he had a green light to exhibit this game, which is played several times a day.
Below is the full list of names so that the public can examine and draw their own conclusions to (scrolling the PDF). Familiar names include Susan Wiles, Bernard Kerik, Kirstjen Nielsen and Morgan Ortagus. Since Waltz’s parameters were made in public, any foreign opponent in knowledge already has this information. The average Americans with better things to do than sniff around Venmo do not do it – so far.