Republican national security subjects in the home do not make the White House’s efforts to go off the “signal holes” scandal.
While Donald Trump’s team blames and fights his critics, members of the House Republican caucus stand their voters thereafter The Atlantic Ocean Published last week that editor Jeffrey Goldberg was incorrectly included in a group discussion by Trump administration principals booking plans for an imminent US strike over Houthi forces. The whole chat played over Signal, an encrypted (but public) messaging app.
Some members make it clear that they did not use the White House line on the narrative, and do not agree with the allegation of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, the White House Karoline Leavitt press secretary, and others who claimed that the information that hes sent to others in the chat during the deliberations was not necessary to classify.
Hegseth’s messages to observers in the White House chat, including Vice President JD Vance, included exact attack periods, information on a confidential CIA source and details of arms packages used in the attack.
The list contains Mike Turner, former chairman of the home intelligence committee and one of a limited number of members who regularly had access to classified information and information sessions.
Turner told ABCs on Sunday This week: “It is clear that the topic discussed, the status of continued military operations, is considered classified information.”
“And it’s surprising to find it in an unclassified way,” he added. “Finding it in this way is surprising.”
He will continue to doubt how the media described the text – and it calls a description of ‘continuous military operations’, rather than ‘plans’. However, the chat included deliberations on whether he should even launch the attacks, with Vance writing to other principals in the chat: “I think we make a mistake.”
Another Republican that breaks with the administration’s line is Victoria Spartz, who served in the Helsinki Commission to monitor European military cooperation.
The Indiana Congress Woman faced a huge town hall over the weekend, where the participants shouted at her to claim the resignation of Hegseth and Michael Waltz, the National Security Adviser of the White House, who erected the text chain and accidentally included Goldberg when he did.
She refused to request their resignations, but reportedly her voters said that the information included in Hegseth’s texts was classified or should have been.
As the White House tried for a few days and failed to go off the story without a formal investigation into the text chain or resignations for someone involved, it became clear that the signal controversy had broken to voters almost overnight.
In the State College, Pennsylvania, residents of a red district became angry by the former Glenn Thompson on Saturday for former congressman Conor Lamb, a Democrat, and other members of the local government at a city meeting hosted by the Center County Democrats. Thompson did not attend, although he was presumably invited; A cardboard cut -out took its place.
Ray Bilger, a Democrat and veteran of the State Department’s foreign service, told the participants: “Number one, everything they said was classified. Number two, they breached national security by putting it in an unfavorable and unsafe, unsafe application.”
It was reported that Vance and White House head Susie Wiles pushed the president to Waltz on Wednesday night, but that he was rejected again. It is said that Trump, who struggled to Goldberg, the idea of the Atlantic Oceaneditor and Democrats a “scalp”.
Vance, who then restored his image after his performance was reported, told reporters about his journey to Greenland: “If you think you are going to force the United States president to fire someone you have, it’s the vice president who says this on Friday: We’re behind our entire national security team.”
