Signal Chat Disclosure Poses Early Test for FBI

“In years past, the move by senior members of President Trump’s administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app would have represented a serious breach that would have likely prompted investigations by the FBI and the Justice Department’s national security division,” the New York Times reports.

“Yet so far, neither the attorney general, Pam Bondi, nor the FBI director, Kash Patel, appear to be planning to investigate whether the communications described in a bombshell report in The Atlantic magazine on Monday potentially violated federal laws like the Espionage Act.”