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Senators demand Pentagon investigates Signal leak scandal in bipartisan letter (www.theguardian.com)

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Mike Rounds, a Republican senator from South Dakota, told CNN: “We recognize the seriousness of this indiscretion, and we’re going to get the inspector general’s report we’ve asked for … and that means the bottom line, we want as much information as we can get, and then we’ll do our own assessment.”

He added: “But right now, I think they screwed up. I think they know they screwed up. I think they also learned their lesson, and I think the president made it very clear to them that this is a lesson they don’t want to forget.”

Sure, Mike. This was just a learning opportunity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is this meaningful when leadership there is likely in support of the current administration? If there are actually positives here, I'll remain hopeful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What it means is the GOP is no longer in lockstep with Trump, which is good news regardless of whether this goes anywhere. Politically, it's a shot across the bow.

Basically, "dude ... don't make us defend an unprecedented security breach." They're of course still fine with human-rights abuses, but this is too much even for them.