The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said Wednesday that the messages disclosed in the Chat in Signal on Bombarders in Yemen did not endanger the operation or the US military.
“None of the information there, at no time, endangered the operation or life of our military. In fact, it was a very successful operation and continues in progress,” he said at a press conference in Jamaica, where he started today a tour of the Caribbean.
Rubio defended that the chat “was created to coordinate” and that, according to the Pentagon, did not include classified information, although he acknowledged that “someone made a serious mistake and added to a journalist.”
The chief editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included by mistake in that chat by the National House Minister of the White House, Mike Waltz, and published details of the conversation that high positions of the Administration maintained to prepare the attack on the Houthi rebels of Yemen on March 15.
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On his role in the chat, Rubio said it was “simply representing” his position, contributing a couple of times and congratulating the team members at the end.
“I think reforms and changes will be made so that this does not happen again,” he added.
On the target of the attacks, the hutis, Rubio defined them as “pirates, a band, a gang of religious fans” that have missiles and have launched -dalló- 174 attacks against ships of the US Navy and about 150 against commercial ships.
“The United States is doing a great favor to the world by going after the ability of these types” to perpetrate attacks and hinder a maritime route, he said.
Rubio met in Jamaica with the head of government of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, and plans other meetings with the prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago, Stuart Young; and Barbados, Mia Mottley; as well as with the president of the Haiti Transition Council, Fritz Jean.
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After his stop in Jamaica, the Secretary of State goes tomorrow, Thursday, to Guyana and Surinam, where he will meet with Presidents Irfaan Ali and Chandrikpersad Santokhi, respectively.
With EFE information
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