U.S. lawmakers call for Signal chat probe, as Justice Department appears uninterested [Video]

Several Trump administration officials are under fire after mistakenly including a journalist in a Signal group chat where strike plans against Houthi targets in Yemen were being discussed. Andrew Chang breaks down the defence from security officials, and why the truth about what happened is difficult to uncover.Images provided by Getty Images, Reuters and The Canadian Press.

The top Republican and Democrat on a Senate congressional panel have sent a letter to the inspector general at the Department of Defence to formally request an investigation into how top Trump national security officials used Signal to discuss military strikes.

Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the committee, along with Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat, signed the letter that asks for an inquiry into the potential “use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information, as well as the the sharing of such information …

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