Democrats Say They Won’t Let the Signal Scandal Fade Away

The White House said the case is closed on Signal-gate. Democrats said they need to learn much more.

Rep. Jim Himes speaks to reporters.

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Democrats are determined to keep Signal-gate in the news as the White House and its Republican allies downplay the severity of the scandal.

“Since we learned about the disclosures from Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, the story has, of course, gotten larger,” Rep. Jim Himes, ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said at a House Democratic Caucus press conference on Tuesday. “We hear press reports that an allied country provided targeting information, and they were pretty upset about the disclosure of that information.”

Himes added that the intelligence committee, which he described as an “entity charged with oversight of these things,” has not yet received an “accounting of the breach.”