Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has not discussed with President Donald Trump the use by top national security officials of the unclassified messaging app Signal to discuss highly sensitive military plans.
President Donald Trump confirmed that multiple employees within the National Security Council were fired Thursday, adding to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz's recent political woes that have snowballed since Democrats first slammed him over March's Signal chat leak.
The evaluation will look into whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complied with department policies when using a Signal group chat last month.
Just seven days after the Signal chat scandal erupted, the White House announced that it doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. In fact, it was Monday when press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, as far as she and her colleagues are concerned, “this case has been closed.”
US Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) stopped by the Denver7 studios on Thursday to talk tariffs, the Signal chat leak, and the possibility of Democrats flipping the House majority back to their control next year.
Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped
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The Pentagon’s inspector general will investigate whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the encrypted commercial app Signal to discuss classified information about a military strike in Yemen. Hegseth and other administration officials have denied any classified information was mentioned.
The element of surprise in the Yemen airstrikes was 'very likely lost' as a result of the controversial leaked Signal chat, a Democrat senator told Caine during a Senate hearing Tuesday.
Data from several U.S. officials' Venmo accounts has been found exposed online, including their contacts and even transaction histories for some. This follows Signalgate earlier this week, and the subsequent revelation that involved officials' private contact information and passwords could be found online.