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Summary: It sounds like human error when Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a secret Signal iPhone military chat. However, a report from The Guardian suggests that it was probably a mix of human and software errors.
Remember when the Trump administration accidentally added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a supposedly secret iPhone Signal group chat that discussed military plans for a Houthi strike? The question is, who was responsible for this? Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, was the one who added Goldberg; therefore, logically, he is to blame. Or is he?
Not so straightforward
As it turns out, the situation is more complicated than that. According to a report from The Guardian, the iPhone Waltz was using, or more specifically, iOS, needs to shoulder some of the blame.
Waltz was supposed to add Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC). However, Waltz’s iPhone gave him a suggested updated phone number that he initially thought belonged to Hughes, so he accepted the new number and added it to the group chat. But, as we all know by now, it wasn’t Hughes who was added, but Goldberg.
How it unfolded
So, why did the iPhone suggest Goldberg’s number instead of Hughes? According to the report, the timeline goes like this: Back in October last year, Goldberg sent an email to the Trump campaign criticizing Trump’s feelings toward people who served in the military.
The email was then forwarded to Hughes, who was Trump’s spokesman at that time. That’s where Waltz got Goldberg’s contact information from, even though both parties never called each other. However, for some reason, the iPhone thought that it was a contact number related to Hughes. That is why it suggested Goldberg’s number instead.
It does sound like a plausible explanation. However, Waltz could have still double-checked the number before agreeing to merge the contacts. Regardless, this little snafu resulted in the Signal app seeing a boost in popularity and downloads. Trump seems to have moved past the mistake. If anything, this serves as a reminder that, despite referring to them as “smartphones,” it’s always good to double-check rather than assuming everything is flawless.
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