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Wide -ranging criticism follows the security error at the White House
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We start with a wide condemnation after the senior cabinet members in Donald Trump participated in a dangerous security breach while discussing the secret military plans of recent American attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.
in An unusual mistakeMain numbers in Trump administration -In addition, Vice President, JD Vance, Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseh, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marco Rubio, and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard-used the signal of commercial chatting application for assembly and discussing plans-with a prominent journalist in the group.
The news was I met anger It calls for an investigation in the United States, where the leader of the Senate minority has described it as “one of the most amazing violations of the military intelligence that I have read a very long time ago.”
The signal was not approved by the United States government to exchange sensitive information.
“If this is true, this story represents one of the most terrible failures of operational security and the sound coordinator that I have seen at all,” Jack Reed of Rod Island, the oldest democracy of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Senate, said in a statement.
He said that American life “is at stake. The neglect that the cabinet has shown in Trump is amazing and dangerous. I will search for answers from the administration immediately.”
Jim Hems of Connecticut, the largest Democrat at the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, said in a statement that he was “terrified” of reports.
“He did what is described here, they are likely to lose their permit and undergo a criminal investigation. The American people deserve the answers,” he said, who said he intends to obtain a hearing previously identified in the committee.
Some Republicans also expressed their concerns. “We are very concerned about this and we will discuss it on the basis of the two parties,” Roger Wake, Republican in Mississippi, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Monday.
Reed said that he will talk to Wicker about what the committee will do to “follow up” about the leakage of the sign. Meanwhile, the majority leader of the Senate John Thun said he wanted to learn more about what happened.
“It is clear that we must run it on the ground, and know what happened there,” said Thun, a fans in South Dakota.
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