The highest Republican and Democrat at a jury of the Senate Congress has sent a letter to the General Inspector of the Department of Defense to formally request an investigation on how the highest National Security officials Trump used the signal to discuss military strikes.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican President of the Committee, along with Rhode Island Senator, Jack Reed, the highest Democrat, signed the letter calling for a research on the potential « use of not classified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information, as well as the sharing of this information with those who do not have proper authorization and need to know. »
Its movement occurs when the highest officials of the country’s law have not pledged to publicly disseminate any research on this subject.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, who was not part of a signal chat in which Donald Trump’s national security officials discussed detailed attack plans, he would not comment if the FBI opens a probe for two days of Hill Capitol High Courts this week.
He testified that he had not personally reviewed the text messages that were inadvertently shared with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic Chief Editor, who was mistakenly included in an unproofed signal chat.
The Department of Justice has extensive discretion to open an investigation, although it is not yet clear if the Attorney General PAM Bondi would authorize this research.
« A very successful mission »
Trump administration officials insist that shared details are not classified, although the espionage law technically criminalizes the manipulation of any information that is considered to be closely in the information of the national defense, even if it is not classified.
Bondi, at a press conference in Virginia, on Thursday to greet the arrest of a band leader, ravaged a challenging tone when a journalist asked if the department was involved at the moment.
« First, it was sensitive information, not classified, an unnoticed publication, » he said. « What we should talk about is that it was a very successful mission. Our world is safer for this mission. »
Bondi then mentioned the investigations launched months ago in the manipulation of classified material on Joe Biden and Hillary Clintonrespectively. There were no criminal charges derived from these queries.
Bondi did not mention in his response that Trump faced the espionage of the allegations in a criminal accusation before being re -elected as President. The sensitive documents are supposed to be found in Florida and New Jersey properties, but the case was rejected, and as this sentence was resorted to, Trump won on November 5, 2024, the election, finally ended the matter.
Trump this week insisted that « it is not really something of the FBI », so that the agency becomes involved in this regard, although the reality is that the FBI and the Department of Justice for decades have been responsible for fulfilling the statutes of espionage that regulate the waste, intentional or negligent, of the information of national defense.
This list includes the case of David Petraeus, the former director of the CIA, who was sentenced in 2015 to two years of probation to disseminate classified information to a biographer with whom he had an extramarital relationship.
Democrats have asked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign from the transmission of information on US and Houthi Aistrikes’s weapons through Signal, a commercially available application that is not approved by the federal government to manage classified material.
They have also expressed concern that, under Trump -designated officials, who as a candidate complained about what he believed was the weapon of the Department of Justice, will not be given accountability.
« Possess –Lot, » says Republican Senator
In addition to protesting that the information was not classified, several Trump officials have turned around by preventing the reasons and credibility of Goldberg, the journalist.
Trump, in Wednesday comments, did not seem to understand the signal functionality and seemed to suggest that the application could have worked badly.
Even some Republicans expressed frustration of the messaging journalists from the White House.
« He owns it, he happened and say he will never happen again, » said Senator Kevin Cramer, from North Dakota.
In his letter, Wicker and Reed want Steven Stebbins, the acting General Inspector of the Department of Defense, at:
- Be careful that it was communicated and any actions to keep track of communication.
- Rate Pentagon policies to share sensitive and classified information, as well as their classification and declassification policies.
- Identify the discrepancies in the classification policies between the White House, the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community and other agencies.
- Evaluate if someone transferred sorted information on signal.
- Make recommendations to fix any identified issues.
Concerns about the number of civilian deaths
The strikes against the Houthis with the support of Iran began on March 15 and continued.
Trump’s whereabouts as the signal chat took place and in the previous hours it is still unclear.
The Airwars Group based in the UK says it is likely that at least five north -American strikes do or murders civilianBased on videos and photographs of the site, statements of Huthi and other details. The signal chat refers to a building in which a « girlfriend » resided in a valuable goal.
The North Army -American has not recognized any civilian victims since the strikes began more than a week ago. He refused to answer questions about possible civilian victims, but said that « Houthis continues to communicate lies and misinformation. »
According to Houthis, the number of general deaths from the attacks is 57.
The Trump administration allows the American forces of Mid East to launch offensive attacks at will, instead that the White House is signed in each attack as former President Joe Biden.
Colorado Congressman, Jim Himes, says that the chat at Huthi Airstrakes accidentally filtered the journalist could have been easily intercepted by North -Americans.
The Trump administration promised a tougher position against Yemen’s rebels, and its new air campaign seems to be more intense and extensive, according to a review of the Operation Associated Press.
The Houthis headed for more than 100 business vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two and killed four sailors during their campaign from November 2023. The campaign took place after Israel launched a war in Gaza, derived from the fatal attacks on October 7, 2023, led by Hamas, which are designated by various western countries designated by various western countries.
The Houthis have not acknowledged any loss in their leadership by recent aerial attacks.
On Thursday they claimed the responsibility of two long -range missiles in Israel.
Aerial sirens were heard in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Central Israel and occupied West Bank, with local media reports
The fragments fell in various places. The military of Israel said that the missiles were intercepted and that there were no injuries.
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