Signal security leak fallout continues with Trump’s top security officials set to face House hearing – US politics live

CIA director John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI director Kash Patel will testify before the House intelligence committeeDemocratic US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and top Senate Democrats on Wednesday wrote a letter to Republican president Donald Trump and his top officials urging a justice department probe into how a journalist was inadvertently included in a secret group discussion of sensitive war plans.Trump administration officials have claimed no classified material was shared in the group chat on Signal, an encrypted commercial messaging app. Continue reading...

Signal security leak fallout continues with Trump’s top security officials set to face House hearing – US politics live

CIA director John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI director Kash Patel will testify before the House intelligence committee

Democratic US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and top Senate Democrats on Wednesday wrote a letter to Republican president Donald Trump and his top officials urging a justice department probe into how a journalist was inadvertently included in a secret group discussion of sensitive war plans.

Trump administration officials have claimed no classified material was shared in the group chat on Signal, an encrypted commercial messaging app. Continue reading...