United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that someone made a “big mistake” by adding a journalist, the chief editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the group of US authorities discussing the plans to attack the Yemen.
Rubio claimed that the chat was created to coordinate communications. When asked if the information was confidential, he pointed to the Pentagon, who in turn had stated it was not. The Secretary of State said the Pentagon was “in charge of the royal operation.”
“I think there will be renovations and changes so that this does not happen again. It cannot,” Rubio said at a news conference in Jamaica.
“The Pentagon and everyone involved assured me that none of the information there at no time threatened the operation or lives of our military,” he added.
As for his own role in the group’s conversation, the secretary of state noted that he identified his chief of staff and later congratulated the team after the Housei group’s targets in Yemen was officially announced.
“Obviously, someone made a mistake. Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist. Nothing against journalists, but you shouldn’t be in this thing,” Rubio, a former high-ranking deputy of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said.
A defense officer told the CNN That the information released by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on the Signal chat was highly confidential at the time he wrote them.
This content was originally published in “Someone made a big mistake,” says Rubio about group journalist on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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