Congressional Democrats said they will raise on Tuesday during the annual global threat assessment before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee the apparent lapse in operational security as top Cabinet members discussed secret war plans for Yemen over the Signal messaging app that also inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat, The Washington Post reported.

The text chain revealed in Monday’s article in the Atlantic — and the accidental inclusion of a journalist on that chain — was so “reckless,” the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote, that even he had trouble believing at first that it was real.

At least two of the officials scheduled to testify — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe — were among those who took part in the group chat, which was convened by national security adviser Michael Waltz.

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