New Delhi, March 31 -- The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed National Security Adviser Mike Waltz's explanation for how he was included in a Trump administration group chat discussing an imminent military strike in Yemen. Waltz claimed that Goldberg's contact was "sucked in" to his phone via "somebody else's contact," a theory Goldberg called "implausible."

"This isn't The Matrix," Goldberg told NBC on Sunday. "Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about there."

Goldberg maintained that his number was in Waltz's phone, making the accidental inclusion straightforward. "Very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation," he said. "My phone number was...