… Over the course of the conversation, Hegseth sent “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” according to The Atlantic. Elsewhere in the conversation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent “information that might be interpreted as related to actual and current intelligence operations.”

All would almost certainly be classified at the highest level, former officials said.

“Somebody needs to get fired,” former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told CNN.

… Pentagon regulations specifically state that messaging apps, including Signal, “are NOT authorized to access, transmit, process non-public DoD information.”

A former senior US defense official said…this amounts to a blatant mishandling of classified information and an illegal transfer of the material from a classified system to an unclassified network.

… Under normal circumstances, a mistake such as this would prompt an investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department’s national security division, according to former Justice Department officials.

[but] That’s unlikely here, in part because some of the top Trump administration officials on the Signal chat would be the ones to ask for such an investigation.

“If anyone else did it, no question it would be investigated,” a former Justice official said.

Steve G. wrote:

"Senator, I'll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared in that," she said.