House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats are asking the inspectors general at national security agencies whose leaders discussed a pending airstrike in a Signal chat to investigate the matter, including what laws were violated in the process.

“This incident raises grave concerns about a potential pattern of misuse of unsecured communication platforms for sensitive discussions and the possibility that American military and intelligence professionals may have been compromised by the reckless dissemination of such highly sensitive national security information,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.), the top Democrat on the panel, wrote in a letter.

“It is critical that your offices investigate this matter and any other incidents in which senior national security leaders in the Trump Administration have, either through incompetence or neglect, compromised highly sensitive or classified national security information.”

The letter was sent to the inspectors general of the Department of........

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