U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz received emails via his personal email account but has never used that account to send classified material, the White House said after The Washington Post reported Waltz and other National Security Council members used Gmail for government work.

Senior members of the Trump administration's National Security Council — including its top national security advisor, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported,

The news about Waltz’s Venmo list comes as the former congressman from Florida has done his best to deflect from another operational security scandal that’s blown up this week. Waltz accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine,