Senate committee presses Pentagon watchdog for answers on Signal chat

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and ranking member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) have sent a letter to the Defense Department’s acting inspector general demanding more information about a Signal chat on which senior Trump officials apparently discussed military attack plans.

Wicker and Reed noted that the chat on Signal, a commercially available communications app, “was alleged to have included classified information pertaining to sensitive military actions in Yemen.”

“If true...