Kingston: The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, admitted that including a journalist in a group military conversation about air attacks was a “big mistake” and promised reforms to prevent it from happening again.
“Obviously, someone made a mistake, someone made a big mistake, and added a journalist. Nothing against journalists, but you are not supposed to be in that thing,” Rubio said at a press conference in Jamaica, while the row dominated the headlines for the third day.
“I think there will be reforms and changes made, so this never, so this will not happen again,” he said.
Rubio did not assign the guilt, but he quickly pointed out that he only participated twice in the chat, once to assign a representative and then congratulate US troops after a public announcement of the strikes about Yemen.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a chief editor of the Atlantic, said he was inadvertently added to the chat in the commercial application signal of Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, and that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the strike plans through him.
Rubio repeated the affirmation of the Trump administration that “none of the information there at no time threatened the operation or life of our military.”
The messages, published by the Atlantic, showed a division in the decision to attack the Houthi rebels, with vice president JD Vance saying that the United States was again “rescuing” Europe, which is most affected by the interruptions of insurgents to the sending of the Red Sea.
Hegesh, in the exchange, agreed that the “European freelaading” was “pathetic.”
He asked for his reaction as the main diplomat in the United States, Rubio seemed to support the attacks.
“I think the point that I would do is not that we are going to make someone pay or not. It is (that) all should recognize that we are making the world a great favor to these guys, because this cannot continue,” he said.
