Posted on 04/04/2025 11:47:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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. She also appeared to foreclose the possibility of a Justice Department investigation into the matter.
“Those cases would have to be referred to me. They have not been referred to me,” Bondi said, speaking at an unrelated news conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She referred to reports Thursday that the Pentagon’s inspector general will launch his own internal review, and she repeated denials by top officials that the material at issue was classified.
“The agencies themselves said it was sensitive and not classified,” Bondi said.
Experts have told The Washington Post that the material, including the timeline for March drone attacks on Yemen, would typically have been considered highly classified and that discussing it on a commercially available messaging app instead of secure government lines of communication posed a security risk.
The existence of the officials’ communications over Signal were first revealed by the Atlantic magazine, which reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was unintentionally added to a group chat by White House national security adviser Michael Waltz. In it, top leaders including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others discussed location and timing details of the upcoming Yemen strike.
Democratic lawmakers have called on the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether officials mishandled classified information. But the Trump administration has sought to downplay the severity of the incident.
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Good.
She has bigger fish to fry stay the course.
Fixed
When the administrative state lilliputians call for the investigation of the President and his key appointees, it is obstruction of Justice not to investigate. They said so. It’s the law, our law, meaning their law. What needs to be investigated is why these morons haven’t been fired for insubordination to the boss the People elected over them.
“Experts have told The Washington Post that the material, including the timeline for March drone attacks on Yemen, would typically have been considered highly classified and that discussing it on a commercially available messaging app instead of secure government lines of communication posed a security risk.”
All true.
But nobody is going to do anything about it and you have no power to compel them.
Where’s the Epstein list Pam!!??!!
Pentagon watchdog opens probe into Hegseth's leaked Yemen strike chats on Signal
Stop letting the left define the conversation. Simple say “we looked into it and the matter has been resolved” then move on.
There was no investigation when Biden’s administration used Signal. Why should there be now?
They just need to stop using it and move to a platform that isn’t a toy.
They might not want to push it ... Bondi could charge those fired Demoncrats NSC traitors.
What’s with this issue deflection? It’s not the chat’s content that needs focus, it should be who is behind the system’s creation and its true purpose for being.
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