BrianKrebsSo the Trump administration is continuing to say nothing to see here with the whole leaking of war plans to a journalist over Signal thing. No investigation, no inquiry. Case closed.
“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday. “There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward,” she said.
@mmasnick has a great response to this bullshit, as he skewers a number of big media outlets for reporting on the White House statement as just, welp, that's it.
"Let’s be clear: uncritically reporting the White House’s “nothing to see here” stance isn’t journalism — it’s stenography. The press secretary’s statement isn’t just meaningless, it’s an active attempt to sweep serious actual violations under the rug."
"This White House’s strategy is clear: lie, mislead, and deflect until the story dies. We’ve seen it with Bondi’s desperate “but her emails” deflection last week, and we’re seeing it again with this premature “case closed” declaration."
"But there are plenty of things in this story that require investigation:"
How did multiple senior officials decide it was totally acceptable to plan military operations over a consumer messaging app?
What other sensitive discussions have happened on unsecured channels such as Signal?
Have these conversations been recorded, as required under the Federal Records Act?
Have other illegal commercial chats been scrubbed to see how many outsiders were allowed in to them like Goldberg was?
How did they fuck up so badly to add an external person (incredibly, a reporter) to this illegal chat?
Who approved targeting civilian infrastructure, and what was their legal justification?
What “steps have been made” to prevent this from happening again, and why should we trust them?
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