Republican and Democratic Senators Unite to Demand Pentagon Probe Into Signal Chat Scandal

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Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and ranking member Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) formally requested that the Defense Department conduct an inquiry into the sensitive Signal group chat about airstrikes in Yemen.

The request came after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg dropped a bombshell article Monday reporting how Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added him to a group chat in which the principals committee – the heads of the top American national security agencies — discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels.

In a letter published on Thursday Wicker and Reed laid out their concerns about the disclosure of “sensitive and classified information” in the chat where the journalist was present and called for a DoD inquiry into the matter.

In both televised interviews and congressional testimony, Trump officials offered a shifting defense — insisting the messages did not contain classified material, downplaying them as “attack plans” rather than “war plans” and attacking Goldberg’s credibility.