Michael “Mike” Waltz is Donald Trump’s national security advisor. Waltz is the one who added the Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal war-plan groupchat, a groupchat which included the Secretary of Defense and JD Vance. A groupchat which never should have been conducted on Signal, because it’s not secure enough to share highly sensitive material. Well, funny story? Waltz also shares classified material on his Gmail account, and that’s in addition to last week’s revelation about his publicly visible Venmo account.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and a top aide shared sensitive information over their personal Gmail accounts, according to The Washington Post. The commercial email platform is less secure than Signal, the encrypted messaging app that Waltz drew condemnation for using to discuss a military strike last month.

The Waltz aide, a National Security Council (NSC) official, used his Gmail account to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict” with other government agencies, wrote the Post, which obtained the emails. Unlike the NSC staffer, other officials involved in the exchanges were using government-issued accounts. The items Waltz had sent to his Gmail was less sensitive—however, they included potentially exploitable information, like his schedule and other work documents, multiple officials told the Post.

“Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Post.

Waltz is still reeling from last week’s Signal chat incident, in which he accidentally added a prominent journalist, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, to a chat where top Donald Trump aides were discussing an upcoming strike on Houthi militants in Yemen. Trump, despite privately mulling firing Waltz over the embarrassing incident, has opted to publicly stand by him.

Brian Hughes, a spokesperson for the NSC, told the Post that he had seen no evidence that Waltz used his Gmail account in this way. When “legacy contacts” do email Waltz about work at his personal email, he makes sure to copy his official government account to comply with the federal requirement that all correspondence be archived, Hughes added.

The Signal scandal, for which Waltz took “full responsibility,” brought the top national security official condemnation—even from senior White House aides, one of whom last week called him a “f—ing idiot.” Since then, Waltz’s communication practices have come under scrutiny, revealing further slip-ups. The Wall Street Journal reported that Waltz used other Signal group chats to discuss national security topics, such as relations between Russia and China. The friends list on his once publicly visible Venmo account also revealed a trove of likely contacts—including some of Trump’s enemies in the media.

[From The Daily Beast]

While none of this is surprising, it does feel like there should be more internecine Republican drama about it? These people all serve their cult-daddy master, why aren’t the knives out for Waltz within the MAGA cult? When one falls, ten cultists rise in his place. I guess that’s what the Gmail story is about though – people within Trump’s national security team are obviously leaking about Waltz’s incompetence. But her emails, but her Signal chat, but her Venmo!

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