Hold Trump Admin Officials Accountable for Mishandling Classified Information (UPDATED 4/2)
Updates
April 2, 2025: New reporting has revealed that National security advisor Mike Waltz’s team has been regularly using the Signal app to discuss official work with other countries. Sources confirmed at least 20 such chats and the sharing of sensitive information.
March 26, 2025: The Atlantic has now released the text messages from the Signal chat, proving that classified attack plans were indeed shared openly. Trump officials had all denied this, some while under oath in front of Congress. A lawsuit has also been filed against Trump officials for potentially breaking record-keeping laws.
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.
Contacts for this topic:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].
I’m calling to today because I’m shocked and outraged over the Trump administration’s incompetent and careless use of a commercial app to discuss highly-classified military operations and other official work with other countries.
I ask that [REP/SEN NAME]…
[Choose 1-3 actions:]
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demand the immediate resignations of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz (and);
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call for the resignations of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and every other participant in the unsecured Signal chat (and);
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conduct congressional investigations into the regular use of an unsecured communication app by top Trump officials and their potential violation of record-keeping laws or the Espionage Act (and);
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move to impeach these Trump administration officials for their complete disregard of national security protocols if they fail to resign.
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