Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said on Wednesday that he believes the information detailing the attack plan against the Houthis in Yemen should have been classified.

Wicker told reporters that the laid-out plans by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth via Signal, which included when fighter jets would take off and drone strikes would drop over the region, were sensitive enough to warrant that level of classification. 

“The information as published recently appears to me to be of such a sensitive nature that, based on my knowledge, I would have wanted it classified,” Wicker said at the Capitol.

The stance clashes with that of President Trump, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — all of whom said the information was not classified.

Wicker also said that he and Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top Democrat on the panel, are calling on the administration to expedite an Inspector General report back to the committee.

He also wants to know if the transcript released by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg is accurate and for a classified briefing on the situation in the near-term.

The Mississippi Republican also indicated that he believes Hegseth and others involved should apologize.

“I make a lot of mistakes in my life, and I've found that it's best when I just own up to them and say, ‘I'm human. I made a mistake,’ and I'm glad in this case, no real damage was done,” Wicker said. “I think that that's probably going to be the approach of the administration right up to the president.”

“The fact is that the plans for the strike, the timing, the locations, were not revealed to the enemy, and it was a very successful operation,” he said. “If early on in this administration, there were mistakes, I would hope they can be rectified.”