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.

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,

A spokesman for the White House National Security Council suggested Tuesday that national security adviser Mike Waltz has received work-related emails on his personal Gmail account – but has “never” sent classified material over the unsecured platform.