Maine 2nd District Congressman Jared Golden is joining fellow Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee to call for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to testify before Congress after war plans were shared in a group chat that included a reporter.
Hegseth and several other high-level Trump administration members discussed attacks in Yemen before they took place on Signal, a commercial chat app.
Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was included in the chat by mistake and wrote about the error the next day.
The letter, signed by all 27 Democrats on the committee, also contends the app may have violated federal record-keeping laws in addition to breaching confidentiality rules.
“Discussing such sensitive, and potentially classified, information on a messaging application that is not approved for the transmission of classified information could have jeopardized the safety of servicemembers and compromised the military operation,” wrote Golden in a letter to Rogers signed by every Democrat on the committee. “Furthermore, the use of this messaging application may have violated federal laws regarding the proper handling of classified information and federal record keeping laws.”
The hearing request came the same day Goldberg and The Atlantic released transcripts in which Hegseth shared shared the precise times and types of weapons to be used in the attacks.
