[Politics] Republicans' calls for probe of Trump officials' Signal chat grow

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Republican calls to investigate a group chat in which White House national security officials shared sensitive military information have intensified, with Oklahoma Senator James Lankford saying an inquiry would be "entirely appropriate".

Lankford stopped short of calling on officials to resign when speaking to CNN on Sunday, but joined other Republicans who have broken with US President Donald Trump over the chat.

The Trump administration has downplayed the unclassified Signal messages, in which Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and others shared potentially classified details about an upcoming attack on Yemen.

Many Democrats have demanded that Hegseth and other officials resign over the incident.

Lankford joins fellow Republican and Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker, who penned a letter earlier in the week requesting the inspector general of the US Department of Defense look into the incident.

The letter said the discussion of sensitive military information on Signal, an online messaging application, with a journalist present in the chat "raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information".

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz appears to have accidentally added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the chat before the officials discussed the upcoming strikes.

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