Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is demanding Congressional hearings into the Trump Administration’s mishandling of sensitive information that put American flight crews at risks.
Sen. Ossoff joined 15 Senators urging the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearings investigating why some of President Trump’s Cabinet Members and National Security officials were recklessly discussing classified military operations on unsecured devices.
This week, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Sen. Ossoff pressed CIA Director John Ratcliffe after senior U.S. national security officials were discussing sensitive information about imminent military operations against a foreign terrorist organization on an unsecure messaging platform, putting servicemembers and our nation’s security at risk.
“We write to you with grave concern regarding the recent revelations reported in The Atlantic about the Trump Administration’s reckless handling of classified information about U.S. military operations,” Sen. Ossoff and the group wrote. “This gross mishandling of highly classified information has weakened our national security and could have put at risk American lives, particularly the men and women involved in the military strikes in Yemen.”
Recent reporting by the Atlantic detailed the classified military plans that were discussed in the commercial, unclassified messaging app.
“For this reason, we are calling on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to hold joint or separate hearings to investigate this matter fully and get to the bottom of why members of the National Security Council were using unclassified, internet-connected smartphones and channels to discuss highly sensitive military information, when there are known ways to tamper with unclassified devices and when it is possible that dozens of foreign intelligence agencies are targeting the unclassified smartphones used by these senior U.S. government officials,” Sen. Ossoff and the group continued. “Our national security demands that we act with urgency to uncover the full details of this severe security breach and implement measures to prevent such recklessness in the future.”
Click here to read Sen. Ossoff and the group’s inquiry.
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