Just seven days after the Signal chat scandal erupted, the White House announced that it doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. In fact, it was Monday when press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, as far as she and her colleagues are concerned, “this case has been closed.”

The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported he was accidentally added by Mike Waltz to a group chat containing secret military plans.

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, according to a Washington Post report published yesterday.

The Pentagon’s internal watchdog notified the defense secretary of a probe into whether he shared classified information last month in a Signal group chat that included a journalist.

The probe will examine whether the defence secretary complied with policy when he used the commercial messaging app.

The review will also look at other defense officials' use of the publicly available encrypted app, which is not able to handle classified material.