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riversedge

(74,967 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:49 PM Mar 31

White House says case 'closed' on Signal chat despite calls for investigations

Source: PBS


Politics Mar 31, 2025 5:07 PM EDT

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that national security adviser Mike Waltz continues to have President Donald Trump’s confidence and that it was done discussing the embarrassing matter of senior officials communicating about plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen on a commercial messaging app.

“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” Leavitt said.

Waltz added a journalist to the sensitive group chat on the platform Signal, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth divulged operational details on the strike and Vice President JD Vance discussed his reservations about the operation.

Leavitt said “there have been steps made to ensure that something like that can, obviously, not happen again,” but did not provide any clarity on what those steps were. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have called for an investigation into the sensitive conversation playing out on Signal.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-says-case-closed-on-signal-chat-despite-calls-for-investigations



And now we know Waltz has had several chats with government officials using Signal!!



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White House says case 'closed' on Signal chat despite calls for investigations (Original Post) riversedge Mar 31 OP
Sounds guilty! SheltieLover Mar 31 #1
But her emails! BadgerKid Mar 31 #2
Nah Rebl2 Mar 31 #3
This isn't going away anytime soon Wiz Imp Mar 31 #4
and this is just the FIRST big one Skittles Mar 31 #7
Its not up to you Bayard Mar 31 #5
My cat tries to bury his shit, too. And much more successfully. marble falls Mar 31 #6
May I steal this? murielm99 Apr 1 #8
But of course! marble falls Apr 1 #9
Insufficient and they know it. Actual military officials have confirmed that EVERYONE in that chat should be Karasu Apr 1 #10

Skittles

(163,256 posts)
7. and this is just the FIRST big one
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:07 PM
Mar 31

plenty of time left for these idiots to fuck up again

Bayard

(24,680 posts)
5. Its not up to you
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 10:19 PM
Mar 31

Congress/Dems can investigate whatever they want, and subpoena people. Rethuglicans do it all the time on issues of national security--like Hunter Biden's laptop.

Karasu

(920 posts)
10. Insufficient and they know it. Actual military officials have confirmed that EVERYONE in that chat should be
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:57 AM
Apr 1

fucking fired. Anything less than that is a failure to adequately address the problem.

Of course, to fascists, there is no "problem." Competency doesn't matter to them. Only mindless loyalty.

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