Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - Louisiana
While some people are ramping up their outrage over the inadvertent inclusion of a reporter for The Atlantic in a group text in which top cabinet members were plotting military action against Yemen, Senator Bill Cassidy appears to be downplaying the controversy.
“This shouldn’t have been done, but the President stands behind his team. There was a mistake they made. He expects them to learn from their mistake,” Cassidy said.
Cassidy says no one involved should be fired because no Americans got killed.
“If an American died, maybe somebody gets fired. That’s what the American people did to Joe Biden after his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Cassidy said.
Cassidy says there was a reason that they were using Signal to conduct the group chat.
“One of the reasons they may have been using this Signal Chat, is that the Chinese have been very aggressive about attempting to intercept texting messages between government officials. So, it was an abundance of caution that had them kind of doing a Signal-type Chat,” Cassidy explained.
The Atlantic published the texts that its reporter received after the White House said there was no classified information contained. However, some sources are now saying that some of the information in those texts were indeed classified.
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