The fact that officials from the White House, intelligence community, and the Pentagon were using Signal to discuss highly sensitive military activities and relations with allies, possibly on their personal devices, while traveling abroad, including to Russia, and not checking who else might have been on the in the group chat exuded “sloppiness…incompetence, disrespect,” Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said during the hearing.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the committee, described the entire chat episode as “sloppy,” but also dangerous.
“If the Houthis had this information they could have repositioned their defensive systems…American lives could have been lost.”
(The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg did not reveal operational details in his article, but merely alluded to them.) The Senate Democrats’ fiery tone stood in stark contrast to the silence of Republican lawmakers who made no effort to defend, explain, or justify the affair.
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