Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday railed against the Trump administration’s seemingly inadvertent inclusion of a journalist on a group chat planning military strikes in Yemen.

Meeks called for the chairman of the committee, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fl.) to immediately hold a hearing on the “rank incompetence” demonstrated by the top leadership in the Trump administration.

“I am immediately calling on Chairman Mast to hold a hearing on what might be the most astonishing breach of our national security in recent history, where top leadership from DOD, State, Treasury, the CIA and even the VP himself used a commercial messaging app — Signal — to communicate U.S. war plans, all the while unaware that a........

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