By Sara Dorn
KEY FACTS
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters “this case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned,” adding “there have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again . . . we’re moving forward.”
Leavitt’s comments come as some Republican lawmakers push for an independent investigation into how National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a detailed timeline for attacking the Houthi rebel group in Yemen earlier this month.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., was the latest Republican to break with the Trump administration in publicly calling for an independent investigation into the leak, telling CNN on Sunday it “raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information,” though no Republicans have publicly called on any administration officials to be fired over the incident.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chair of the Armed Services Committee, and ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., also asked the Pentagon’s inspector general last week to investigate an inquiry and report back to Congress, including relaying “any remedial actions taken” and “whether any individuals transferred classified information.”
Trump, meanwhile, has publicly stood by Waltz and Hegseth—despite reports that Waltz’s job was on the line and some Democrats calling for one or both to resign—accusing the media and “Radical Left” of a “Witch Hunt,” calling the story “old and boring” and alleging his detractors are using it to distract from what he called “the most successful ‘First One Hundred Presidential Days’ in the history of America.”
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