US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday “signalled” that there will be no criminal investigation of “Signalgate” – the scandal over the sharing of sensitive information about airstrikes in Yemen on a group chat which contained a top Washington journalist, according to The New York Times report_._
Bondi defended senior national security officials for discussing potential military strikes in Yemen on Signal, stating that the information shared in the chat was “sensitive but not classified.”
“It was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released,” NYT quoted Bondi as telling reporters in Virginia while praising the military operation that ensued.
“What we should be talking about is, it was a very successful mission,” Bondi said.
Under normal circumstances, the FBI and Justice Department would initiate an investigation to determine if classified information was shared without authorisation, which is a criminal offense.
Bondi strongly countered critics who raised serious concerns about the conversation occurring on an unclassified commercial messaging app that officials worry could be susceptible to foreign hacking.
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