3 reasons ‘Signalgate’ is not going away

White House Declares ‘Case Closed’ on Signalgate—Congress Disagrees

Congress is waiting to see the results of the Pentagon’s investigation.

Susan Estrich: The cover-up is always worse than the crime

The White House press secretary accused him of being an "anti-Trump hater," a "propagandist in the mainstream media," and of trying to sell a Signal "hoax." The president called him a "sleazebag." President Donald Trump was reportedly furious, not at his own team but at the press, calling the investigation a witch hunt and The Atlantic, owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple founder's widow, a failed magazine. The magazine acted with restraint …

Worse Than Signalgate? New Security Bombshell Hits White House

Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration’s national security scandal that potentially endangered the lives of U.S. service members, and risked exposing military plans, by using an insecure channel to discuss, map out, and announce progress of an attack in Yemen. Then there was the Trump administration’s passwords scandal, where passwords, email addresses, and phone numbers of top Trump national security officials we…

Sam Michel: Promises made, promises kept

Thanks to the Trump administration for its latest demonstration of government transparency by including an editor from The Atlantic magazine in a group chat about attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen. By shrewdly refusing to designate the operation “highly classified,” and refusing to hide behind the security of their government-issue phones, the actors in this exciting drama allowed us to view how a truly merit-based cabinet operates, freed …

Outlets Covered 'Signalgate' 7x More Than Yemen Airstrikes

The TV networks devoted far more time to a group chat mistake than to a U.S. military airstrike of international consequence.

Lying about Signal chat only makes issue worse

Why can't public officials admit that they screw up?