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On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages


A tech company with ties to Israeli intelligence, TeleMessage’s riskier app appears to be favored by Trump’s national security team.

Waltz’s misuse of the Signal app became one of the Trump Administration’s biggest scandals, when it was revealed that he accidentally added the editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a group chat with top officials. Nir Elperin, the Vice President of Corporate Strategy “served 4 years in the Elite Military Intelligence Unit of the Israeli Defense Forces,” according to his bio, where he “commanded teams of computer experts.” In 2019, the U.S. government determined that Israel had most likely planted “StingRay” surveillance devices that mimic cell phone towers around the White House, intending to spy on President Donald Trump and his top aides, according to a Politico report.

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