National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday.

Republicans have been caught in yet another lie about the war plans group chat. After The Atlantic reported Monday that members of Trump’s Cabinet discussed U.S. military plans in a Signal chat that accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief,

Defenese Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and more of the contacts who appeared in the Signal group chat about a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz said that he built a group Signal chat that mistakenly included a journalist, The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, whose bombshell story detailed how top Trump advisers shared war plans on the texting platform.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic's top editor who was included in a Signal chat of Trump administration officials discussing plans for a military strike in Yemen, pushed back Sunday on National Security Advisor Michael Waltz's claims that the two have never spoken.

As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel worry about the dangers if no one is held accountable.

In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has cast around for advice.