BURSTSen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Israel was “incredibly angry” about the plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen leaked in a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials and a journalist.
Klobuchar joined MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday, where she weighed in on the ongoing scandal.
“We’re literally putting American service members at risk and also endangering our intelligence relationship with others,” Klobuchar said. “Senator [Mark] Warner [D-Va.] … the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, has made very clear that Israel was incredibly angry about this, and that’s been publicly reported.”
Klobuchar also warned about the possibility that allies won't “tell us anything” in the future.
After The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed he was added to the group chat, all eyes were on top Trump administration officials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that any war plans were shared via the commercial app, but a second round of screenshots showed he shared the location, time and weapons for the attack.
The messages published compromised a human source that provided intelligence to the Israelis, who then provided it to the U.S. for targeting the Houthi officials, CBS News reported.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israeli officials complained privately that national security adviser Mike Waltz's messages in the Signal chat became public.
Klobuchar noted that she’s glad some of her Republican colleagues are calling for investigations, but highlighted other top Trump officials who have in the past spoke about the breach of classified information.
“We have to know what has happened, what they’ve put at risk for our allies’ intelligence, our own intelligence, our service members,” she said.