The White House is no longer looking into the episode involving a magazine editor being added to a sensitive discussion involving top government officials, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on March 31.
“This case has been closed here at the White House,” Leavitt told reporters in a gaggle.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added to a Signal group chat in mid-March involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and other top officials. The discussion centered on strikes being carried out in the Middle East.
After The Atlantic revealed what had happened, Waltz said he took responsibility for adding Goldberg and said he did not know how Goldberg’s number ended up on his phone….