White House IT office cracks the Signal-Gate case wide open!! * April 7, 2025

April 7, 2025 - #BreakingNews: The White House's IT office found that #MikeWaltz had accidentally added The Atlantic journalist #JeffreyGoldberg's phone number to his contact list via an A.I. feature on iPhones called "Siri Suggestions". Waltz had meant to add Trump spokesperson #BrianHughes to his contact list, which had included Goldberg's phone number from an email that had been cut-and-pasted to Walz from Hughes. This was all explained by an article in the Guardian titled: "Exclusive: How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat". But what I might ask is: How the HELL did the left-wing Guardian get this story from the White House information technology office!

=== HERE'S WHAT THE GUARDIAN HAD REPORTED ===

Mike Waltz included a journalist in the Signal group chat after he mistakenly saved his number months before under the contact of someone else he intended to add.

The mistake came to light in the White House’s internal investigation, which showed how it happened during the 2024 campaign and went unnoticed until Waltz created the group chat.

That triggered a “forensic review” by the White House information technology office, which found that Waltz’s phone had saved Goldberg’s number when Goldberg emailed the Trump campaign last October.

Goldberg had emailed the campaign about a story that criticized Trump, and to push back against the story, the campaign enlisted the help of Waltz, their national security surrogate.

Goldberg’s email was forwarded to then Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes, who then copied and pasted the content of the email (including the signature block with Goldberg’s phone number) into a text message that he sent to Waltz, so that he could be briefed on the forthcoming story.

Waltz never called Goldberg, but inadvertently saved Goldberg’s number in his iPhone under the contact card for Hughes. The number had been erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

The mistake went unnoticed until last month when Waltz sought to add Hughes (not Goldberg) to the Signal group chat, but ended up adding Goldberg’s number to the message chain.

Waltz said in the immediate aftermath of the incident that he had never met or communicated with Goldberg and suggested that Goldberg’s number had been “sucked” into his phone, seemingly in reference to how his iPhone had saved Goldberg’s number (and why some suspected an outside hack of the Iphone.

Previous administrations, including the Biden White House, also used Signal.

(* And the DHS office of CISA's best practices STILL refers Signal for government use. So what was Senator Mark Warner on the Intelligence Committee so worked up about? What does HE use?)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened