White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was called out after she dismissed reporters' questions amid revelations that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was invited into a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials, particularly Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussing military strategy surrounding war strikes in Yemen.
Lawmakers from both parties have increased their calls demanding an investigation into the Signal scandal. The latest push came from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, who on Monday sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard calling for an independent probe.
In fact, Leavitt went so far as to claim on Monday that the "case has been closed" despite the scandal's massive implications for national security, and made clear there would be no consequences for national security adviser Michael Waltz, who invited Goldberg into the chat.
She said:
"As the president has made clear, Mike Waltz continues to be a main part of his national security team and this case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again.”
"We're moving forward and the president and Mike Waltz and his entire national security team have been working very well to look at how much safer the United States of America is because of the leadership of this team."
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You can hear what she said in the video below.
Leavitt declined further comment, angering critics who've demanded accountability despite the Trump administration's insistence that no classified information had been leaked.
Last week, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order preventing administration officials from deleting messages sent over Signal. The ruling came in response to a request from the nonprofit watchdog American Oversight. A government attorney stated that the administration was already working to collect and preserve the messages.
The Atlantic had previously published the full Signal chat on Wednesday, revealing that the messages were set to disappear after one week. In response, American Oversight filed a lawsuit to ensure the records are maintained in compliance with the Federal Records Act, citing concerns that administration officials frequently use Signal for official communications.
Attorneys for American Oversight said in their court filing that the "use of a non-classified commercial application even for such life-and-death matters as planning a military operation leads to the inevitable inference that Defendants must have used Signal to conduct other official government business."
