In the Trump administration's penchant for constant twists and turns, a scandal lasting four days is out of the ordinary. Especially when it's not in Trump's favor. "Signalgate" is named after the phone app on which nearly 20 senior officials carelessly exchanged information about imminent strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, unknowingly adding a journalist from The Atlantic to the group. The journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed what had happened in an explosive story on March 24.

Senators Jack Reed (Democrat) and Roger Wicker (Republican), members of the Committee on Armed Services, have taken a rare, mostly symbolic, bipartisan step. They sent a letter to the Department of Defense's acting inspector general, asking for an investigation.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), headed by fervent Trump supporter Kash Patel, seems reluctant to take on the case. The Department of Justice doesn't want to either. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday, March 27, that the Signal group chat had shared "sensitive information, not classified and inadvertently released."

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