Just imagine what they’d be saying if this happened under a Democratic administration. The “but her emails” crowd continues to downplay the massive screw-up, where Trump administration officials included a reporter on an unsecured Signal chat where they were discussing a US bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Republican Sen. James Lankford made an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union this Sunday, and was asked about the breach by host Dana Bash. Sadly Bash allowed Lankford to pretend that using Signal is an acceptable form of communication for these officials to be discussing classified information, and didn’t ask him at all about the national security risk and risk to our troops, or that it’s a way to skirt FOIA requests.
BASH: The Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker, he said the incident raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information.
He wants the Pentagon Inspector General to investigate. Do you also want an independent investigation into how all of this happened?
