At House Intel Committee Hearing, Rep. Krishnamoorthi Pushes for Answers, Accountability on Trump Admin Signal Chat Krishnamoorthi, a senior Intel Committee Member calls for[...]

WASHINGTON - At today's annual Worldwide Threats Assessment hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi confronted top U.S. intelligence officials over the exposure of classified military information in their Signal chat, highlighting that the senior Trump Administration officials on the chat lied to the public and withheld key information in claiming no classified information was shared in the unauthorized, insecure setting. During his question line, Congressman Krishnamoorthi repeated his call for a full investigation into potential ongoing security breaches by senior officials and demanded the immediate resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

During his line of questioning, Rep. Krishnamoorthi cited Executive Order 13526 and the Department of Defense's classification manual, both of which clearly define military operations, weapon systems, and strike planning as classified information. Despite repeated assertions by Trump Administration officials-including Secretary Hegseth and President Trump-that no classified information was shared, the text of the Signal chat unequivocally met the threshold for classification through Secretary Hegseth's sharing of strike timings, F-18 and MQ-9 drone deployments, and known terrorist target details.

"This is classified information - it's a weapon system as well as sequence of strikes as well as details about the operations," said Congressman Krishnamoorthi. "And so, I think that just piggybacking off of what some other members have said, using the DoD's manual as well as the executive order in operation today with the Trump Administration, this text message is clearly classified information. Secretary Hegseth has disclosed military plans as well as classified information. He needs to resign immediately. He needs to resign immediately, and a full investigation needs to be undertaken with regard to whether other similar Signal chats are occurring in this administration."

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Congressman Krishnamoorthi questions senior Trump Administration intelligence community officials