A House Democrat is introducing a bill to criminalize sharing classified information using outside messaging platforms, such as Signal, after national security adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly added a journalist to a group chat discussing military strikes on the Houthis.
Following a bipartisan outcry from Congress, Rep. Ritchie Torres’s (D-NY) proposition would aim to prevent similar incidents to the one that occurred Monday when Waltz accidentally added Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials talking about military plans.
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