This week, the Atlantic released a spectacular article about a group signal chat that includes the best officials from the US military and intelligence news community to coordinate and execute bombing campaigns against Yemen’s Houthis. Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic Chief and author of the article, was tagged in the chat by national security adviser Michael Waltz. Michael Waltz is the mistake of giving the EIC a front row seat to the best officials as the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President discuss the decision. After Yemen’s plan for attack became clear, Goldberg chose to remove himself from the group chat, and before turning the course back on after public repulsion, he censored some of the conversation for national security reasons.
In a telephone interview with NBC News on Tuesday, President Trump defended his national security adviser, saying, “Michael Waltz learned the lesson and he’s a good guy.”
Whether Waltz has learned his lessons in full, especially given the prospect’s finding that his personal Venmo accounts are public, his lessons seem like a more open question, considering that around 300 “friends” are actively listed in his profile. And Goldberg hasn’t appeared on Waltz’s Venmo’s contact list, but according to prospect reviews, some other journalists do it.
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Approximately 10 minutes after requesting comment, Michael Waltz’s account disappeared from Benmo. Wired was the first to report the news.
In a statement, National Security Council spokesman James Hewitt said, “NSA Waltz was previously a US Congressman and a Fox News contributor. He has connections with people working in the media. There’s nothing surprising here.”
Like the Secretary of Defense of the Venmo account I reported a few weeks ago, Waltz’s account has never been set up private, showing hundreds of names that are likely to be on the phone as contacts. Unlike Goldberg, we do not intend to edit and modify this published information.
What challenges little in the conversation surrounding Atlantic articles is the symbiotic relationship between government and military officials and media friends. Reviewing information that is not currently available in signal exchanges allows you to earn political points right after completing an attack on a friendly news outlet (and possibly even in the Atlantic) within the realm of the possibility that bombing sequences will be shared simultaneously. This is part of the operational tactics of Blob. The aggregation of former generals, think tankers, former staff, lobbyists and media is all working to present clean stories on national security topics.
What sets this week’s incident apart is that the normally highly choreographed, invisible dance between the reporter and the reporter was made available for everyone to see. And the Waltz Benmo shows that Goldberg is not a reporter willing to join the dance with him. Former members of Congress, think tank scholars, and even the obvious winner of the Miss Florida Pageant, Mike Waltz’s Benmo shows that reporters from all major networks are employed and routinely immerse both left and right partisan news media in the White House Trough, as they attempt to maintain highly massaged scoop pumping.
Naturally, Fox News holds the best head count for reporters on Mike Waltz’s phone. Griff Jenkins cites Fox.com’s bio as “a national correspondent for the Fox News Channel (FNC) and a co-anchor for Fox News Live.” Porter Berry, president and editor of Fox News Digital’s Prime Minister, also made the cut.
However, the right-wing reporter is not the only one represented by Waltz’s Venmo list. This appears to be less than “clean with OPSEC,” as Secretary Hegseth wrote in a group chat she leaked this week.
News Nation’s national correspondent, Leland Vittert, is also listed on his digital account. This is also listed on his digital account, as well as American journalist Brianna Keilar, who co-anchors the afternoon edition of CNN News Central, which current President Trump has routinely decried as fake news.
MSNBC executive producer Lauren Peikoff is also in Waltz’s contact information. Earlier this year, Trump tweeted about the network. “Amazing! Rachel Madow has a horrifying rating. She’ll be broadcast soon. MSNBC is nearing death. CNN has reached the bottom. This is a good thing. They are the enemy of people!”
But among the broadcasters, producers and talking heads, one name stands out from the crowd. Judith Miller was immediately fired by the New York Times after it was revealed that her report on the Iraq War was decisively false and was obtained almost verbatim from Vice President Dick Cheney. Her firing was a price paid for getting too close to a government set in war, and seeing the basic facts of intelligence with the same bloody glasses as those who have fingers on the buttons.
On Wednesday, Waltz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he “I don’t know this guy,” and told Goldberg, “I know him for his horrifying reputation. He’s really the lowest scum of a journalist. He knows him in the sense that he hates the president.
Waltz’s official Venmo tells another story about the NSC chief’s willingness to engage in familiar spins to serve more wars and genocides. Goldberg determined that after some protrusions there was a green light to release the game.
Published below is a complete list of names for the public to see and reach their own conclusions (scroll down the PDF). Familiar names include Susan Wills, Bernard Kerick, Kirstgen Nielsen and Morgan Ortags. Given the waltz setting being published, the foreign enemy of knowledge already has this information. The average American is ever doing what he should do rather than smell around a Venmo.
