Article in The Beast by William Vaillancourt
Headline: “Jake Tapper on WH Signal Response: ‘Nothing Matters Anymore’ “
Subhead: “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to wrap up the scandal, insisting that ‘this case has been closed.’ CNN’s Jake had more to say”
“Jake Tapper threw up his hands Monday in response to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declaring resolved the issue of top administration officials inadvertently revealing planned strikes in the Middle East to a journalist through a Signal group chat.
“Nothing matters anymore,” the CNN anchor said in a discussion with The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote last Monday how he had been invited into the Signal chat earlier this month by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
“Leavitt told reporters earlier in the day that “this case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned”—despite no firings and no inspectors general from any government department launching an investigation into the shocking security lapse.”