The More We Learn about SignalGate, the Worse It Gets

More than a week since The Atlantic exposed the Trump team’s use of an unsecured Signal chat to plan military strikes, the scandal keeps deepening. This isn’t just chaos – it’s a dangerous disregard for American national security. And unless there’s a full investigation and real accountability, it will only get worse.

Here’s what we’ve learned so far: 

It was (obviously) classified information. This should come as a shock to no one – but detailed and secretive information about upcoming military strikes isn’t public information. Under Pentagon guidelines, the information that Pete Hegseth posted would have required special clearance to access. 

There are other highly sensitive Signal group chats. The Wall Street Journal reported that “two U.S. officials also said that Mike Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations.”

There will be no real White House investigation into this security breach. Despite announcing an “investigation” into the matter last week, the White House is desperate to move on and change the subject. According to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “This case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned... We’re moving forward.” 

The hypocrisy is stunning. Earlier this month, a government employee was put on leave and informed that their security clearance was under review after accidentally sending unclassified details of an upcoming operation to a journalist. No, we’re not talking about Mike Waltz – but rather a rank and file Department of Homeland Security employee.

Published: April 2025