The chief of the minority Chuck Schumer and the best Democrats in the Senate of National Security Committees wrote a letter to President Donald Trump to request more information on the reports according to which the members of his cabinet used the signal application to convene a group cat to “coordinate and share classified information on sensitive military planning operations” and mistakenly included the Atlantic editor.
The Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, was interviewed at the Capitole in Washington on March 14, 2025.
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“We write to you with an extreme alarm on the surprisingly bad judgment shown by your cabinet and the national security advisers,” the senators wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by ABC News. “You have long pleaded for responsibility and transparency within the government, in particular with regard to the management of classified information, national security and the security of American services. As such, it is imperative to resolve this violation with the gravity and the diligence it requires.”
The committees “have serious questions about this incident, and members need full accounting to ensure that it does not happen again,” said the letter. The authors asked for a “complete and not expelled” transcription of the signal conversation for the appropriate committees to be examined in a secure parameter.
Senators also called on the Attorney General Pam Bondi to conduct an in -depth investigation into the case, citing concerns that “the deliberate or negligent disclosure of classified or sensitive information to national security may constitute a criminal violation of the spying law or other laws”.
The letter asked Trump to preserve the cat in question, as well as any other discussion on government activities occurring on any request for messaging, citing the concerns that signal messages – which should disappear automatically after a fixed period of time – could violate both the federal files on files and the law on presidential files.
“You and your cabinet are responsible for the safety and security of the American people, as well as our soldiers and our intelligence staff in the field. We expect your administration to take care of this dangerous security laps in the security protocol – whether planned or not – with the greatest gravity, and maintain the ethics of the responsibility that our country is sacred,” said the letter.
The letter is signed by the member of the classification of the judicial committee, Dick Durbin, the classification member of the armed services committees Jack Reed, the member of the Committee of Foreign Relations, Jeanne Shaheen, the vice-president of the intelligence committee Mark Warner, the sub-commerge of credits on the Defense Member, Chris Coons, and the member of the Affairs and Government Affairs. It therefore represents a joint declaration of the main democrats through committees dealing with national security issues.
In their letter to Trump, the senators asked for answers to 10 specific questions related to the reported cat, including a full list of its participants.
These included requests for information as to if other people had been wrongly added to the cat, if a person used a personal device to access the cat, if someone was outside the country when accessing the cat and if classified documents were transferred to non-classified systems. Senators also asked for an answer on the question of whether the intelligence community has evaluated the damage of the issue.
Senators have also asked for an answer whether managers of the firm or the White House use a signal or other commercial products to discuss classified or sensitive information, or communications subject to statutory file requirements. If so, they asked the White House to provide details on how it meets the requirements for holding files.
