Trump wants to move on from the Signal security scandal. House Republicans aren't making it easy [View all]
Source: The Independent
Sunday 30 March 2025 23:01 BST
Republican national security hawks in the House are not making the White House’s efforts to move on from the “Signalgate” scandal any easier. As Donald Trump’s team trades blame and battles its critics, members of the House Republican caucus are facing their voters after The Atlantic published proof this past week that editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been mistakenly included in a group chat of Trump administration principals discussing plans for an imminent US strike on Houthi forces. The entire chat played out over Signal, an encrypted (but public) messaging app.
Some members are making it clear that they are not toeing the White House line on the narrative, and disagree with the assertion from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and others claiming that information sent by Hegseth to others in the chat during the deliberations was not or did not need to be classified.
Hegseth’s messages to observers in the chat from the White House, including Vice President JD Vance, included precise attack timings, information about a confidential CIA source, and details about weapons packages used in the attack. That list includes Mike Turner, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee and one of a limited number of members who had access regularly to classified information and briefings.
Turner, on Sunday, told ABC’s This Week: “Clearly the subject matter that’s being discussed, the status of ongoing military operations, should be … considered classified information.” “And it’s surprising to find it in an unclassified manner,” he added. “To find it in this way is surprising.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/national-security-republicans-signal-classified-b2724197.html
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