WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he and Sen. Jack Reed, the committee’s top Democrat, will request an inspector general investigation into the use of Signal by top national security officials to discuss military plans. Wicker’s move is notable given the Trump administration’s defiance that no classified information was posted to the Signal chat.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe were questioned before Congress about how a journalist was added to a group chat in which they discussed American military strikes in Yemen. Democrats called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who shared in the group chat the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop, to resign over the exposure.
The Supreme Court is hearing a new test of federal power in a major legal fight over $8 billion in annual subsidies for phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.
And people in Greenland appear cautiously relieved that Vice President JD Vance and his wife will limit their Friday trip to a U.S. military base, rather than appear uninvited at a public event.
This is a Booshah. Trump and his people are not infallible. Let’s face it they made a SERIOS mistake.
It is unconscionable that they could be using a system that is not compliant with FIPS 140-2 would be used to transmit such secrets by people who should absolutely know better.
Wait! US attack plans should not be classified. Let Iran, Russia hsve them. Journalist Goldbeflrg cannot be proscuted npw, cause the plans arwnt classified! Maga is sooo shmart.