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Lawmakers asking White House for investigation into leak of military plans on group chat

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress are asking for an official investigation into what happened when a reporter was added to a Trump administration group chat discussing planned military strikes against Houthi rebels. The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee are asking the White House for an inspector general investigation into the use of the messaging app Signal to discuss sensitive military plans.

Lawmakers grill national security officials on texts in group chat on plans to bomb Yemen

It's the group text heard around the world. Congress wants to know how a journalist ended up in a Trump administration text thread about highly sensitive military operations. Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies were testifying Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about global security threats, one day after it was revealed that top Trump officials inadvertently included a journalist in a group chat about the United States' highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.

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