A week after the scandal for which the Donald Trump administration is open in that private messaging application, the White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltzand his entire team would have used personal accounts of Gmail (Google’s email) for official matters, as the newspaper published on Tuesday .
Several officials, under the condition of anonymity, have explained to the newspaper that Mike Waltz has used his personal account of the Google email service to receive his agenda and other work documents. In addition, The newspaper had access to a mail thread in which a high -ranking adviser of Waltz used his account of Gmail to hold high technical level conversations with colleagues who work in other agencies about delicate military positions and high range weapons systems.
According to the newspaper, Gmail It is a much less safe communication method than Signal and its use is “the last example of questionable practices in data security by senior national security officials.”
The White House explained on Monday that he closed the research on the use of Signal to discuss an attack to Yemen and, creator of the chat in which a journalist from the magazine was apparently mistaken The Atlantic.
The controversy unleashed an intense debate about whether the information shared in that chat was classified and about whether it is adequate that senior officials discuss high sensitivity plans through Signal, an encrypted messaging application, but not controlled by the US government.
