SignalChat Update ….3/30/2025…Some High Level Lies to Congress?

This has been said by a Democratic US Senator who sat thru the seasons…..

A Republican Senator wants a Inspector General probe….

Lies?

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe “lied repeatedly” about messages in a Signal group chat in which top members of the Trump administration discussed an attack on Yemen.

“Intelligence officials told your committee this week that no classified information was shared. Do you believe that directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Bennet on “Meet the Press.”

“No, I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee. Kristen, let me try to make this as simple as I can,” Bennet replied. “I think the American people know this. If this material was not classified, literally nothing that I’ve ever heard as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee over all these years is classified.”

Earlier this week, Bennet labeled the Signal incidentdisrespectful to rank-and-file intelligence officers during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

“This sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for them is entirely unacceptable. It’s an embarrassment. Do better. You need to do better,” he said Tuesday.

Bennet wasn’t the only Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee to critique the Signal incident Tuesday. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), went after Trump officials for the lack of care shown in their including a journalist and disregarding security protocols using Signal for discussion of an important operation….

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Inspector General Investigation?

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday said an independent investigation into Trump administration officials’ discussion of attack plans on the Signal messaging app is “entirely appropriate” — making him only one of the few notable Republicans to publicly call for further probing into the incident.

The accidental inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, in a Signal group chat with top White House officials to discuss an airstrike on the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen has rattled Washington over the past week, sparking bipartisan national security concerns.

“It’s entirely appropriate for the inspector general to be able to look at it,” Lankford said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Two questions. One is obviously, how did a reporter get into this thread in the conversation?” Lankford continued. “And the second part of the conversation is when individuals from the administration are not sitting at their desk in a classified setting on a classified computer, how do they communicate to each other?”

Trump administration officials have largely downplayed the situation, touting the success of the attack and repeatedly insisting that none of the details discussed in the messaging chain were “classified.” But behind closed doors, top administration advisers have reportedly suggested President Donald Trump remove Waltz.

Lankford isn’t the only Republican pushing for an investigation. Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the panel’s top Democrat, wrote a letter to the Pentagon’s acting inspector general last week requesting an independent investigation into the situation. But most other Republicans are urging their colleagues to move on from the scandal…..

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