EXCLUSIVE — The individual or individuals responsible for inadvertently adding a journalist to a group chat of senior U.S. officials discussing military operations should get fired, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told the Washington Examiner.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were among a group of senior U.S. officials who discussed on the platform Signal the possibility of the U.S. military conducting an offensive campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.