Demand the Resignations of Defense Secretary Hegseth and National Security Advisor Waltz

On March 24, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic reported being accidentally included in a group chat, by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared highly sensitive US military strike plans in Yemen two hours before it occurred. These discussions involved several top US officials including JD Vance and Marco Rubio, and happened on Signal, a popular chat app whose use for sharing classified information about military actions was referred to by multiple former senior intelligence officers as a “shocking risk to national security” and that such a breach would normally prompt an immediate investigation. Multiple members of the House Armed Services Committee are already calling for such an investigation and for the resignation or firing of those responsible.

Defense Department officials expressed shock at their use of the commercial chat app Signal to discuss sensitive information, as such behavior could violate the Espionage Act. A national security advisor should know better than to set up an unsecure and unlawful line of communication. The responsibility for this extraordinary breach of national security also falls on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose lack of experience for this role makes him not only deeply unqualified, but a danger to our national security, as well as to the lives of those serving in our armed forces.

Demand your representatives call for the immediate resignation of both Defense Secretary Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.