Some Republican congress members criticized the Trump government for dealing with the chat group scandal. Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Defense Committee in the Senate, called for an independent examination on Wednesday and an incidental service briefing for the incident. Republican MP Don Bacon from Nebraska said in an interview with the broadcaster PBS that the White House made it worse and worse. “You should just be direct and honest and say we screwed it up.” The information divided into chat about the attack plans on the Huthi militia in Yemen were “obviously” secret.
Senator Lisa Murkowski commented on the “outrageous” vulnerability on Wednesday. She hopes the case serves as a wake -up call that operational security for everyone must be “top priority”, especially in the case of senior members. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham praised the government's handling on Wednesday, but also said that the chat contained “actually very sensitive information about planned and ongoing military operation”.
Trump wants to find out “whether signal doesn't work”
The editor-in-chief of “The Atlantic”, Jeffrey Goldberg, had accidentally added to a group in which highest security politicians in the Trump government were discussing the hit against the Huthi militia in Yemen on March 15. He reported on it for the first time in an article on Monday and published the entire chat course on Wednesday. In the group, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe were among others.
However, the white house has so far denied that the process was problematic. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that it was a “witch hunt”. He also used this term for the allegedly politically motivated charges against himself. In the broadcaster Fox News, Trump later added that he would ask Hegseth to check whether the group content was subject to confidentiality. Hegseth had posted an attack plan with precise times and used weapons and aircraft in the commercial messenger app two hours before the attack.
When asked about the requested investigation, Trump said that he was “no matter”. He wanted to find out if there was any mistakes “or whether signal does not work”. If the company is not good, “then we would rather know that now”. The national security advisor Mike Waltz, who added Goldberg to the group, assumed responsibility for the process, but could not explain it. The magazine “Der Spiegel” reported on Wednesday that private contact details Waltz 'and Hegseth's can be viewed on the Internet. However, it was not clear whether these numbers were still in use or were used in the said signal chat.
