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To: Congress
Investigate Trump officials for putting our national security at risk!
Just days ago, the news broke that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, was included in a Signal group chat with top-ranking Trump administration officials, where he then received messages discussing the upcoming military strikes in Yemen.
This compromised sensitive information, and while it might seem like a bad joke, the administration later confirmed the incident and addressed it as an "inadvertent oversight."
Pete Hegseth, Trump's Secretary of Defense, updated the chat with details around the strikes in Yemen, including weapons, targets, and timing. We cannot have "oversights" like this when it comes to matters of national security. Anywhere else in the military, an offense like this would warrant some sort of accountability. The same and equal standards must apply to senior military leaders.
That's why there must be a congressional investigation to address this "oversight" immediately.
Why is this important?
It's not only dangerous to the American public that this happened, but the fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to these current plans in real time shows that Pete Hegseth and the rest of this crew are astoundingly incompetent at the roles they've been chosen for.
Pete Hegseth was just a Fox News host, with nowhere near the same sort of tactical experience that past defense secretaries had when Trump nominated him for his Cabinet. The risk of having Hegseth and other officials leak information like this raises concerns about the potential mishandling of classified information and sensitive details regarding U.S. war plans in the future.
When President Donald Trump was asked about the report on Monday afternoon, he said, “I don’t know anything about it,” then added, “I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic.”
If Trump won't take actual matters of national security seriously, we will. Sign the petition if you agree there must be a congressional hearing or investigation to hold Hegseth and officials in Trump's administration accountable.
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