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Revelations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared plans that detailed the exact timing of planned military attacks over a Signal group chat created a firestorm of criticism from national security experts on Wednesday.

National security attorney Bradley Moss took to BlueSky to run down why Hegseth's claim that no classified information was sent over the channel simply doesn't hold water.

Even some of President Donald Trump's allies are not pleased with how his administration is handling the fallout of inadvertently leaking its war plans to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic earlier this month.

As Politico reports, the administration seems to have settled on a strategy of impugning the integrity of journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally invited a join a group chat on messaging app Signal in which the administration posted specific details of an upcoming military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

A Democratic lawmaker claims he was stunned by a revelation by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during a congressional hearing.

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) pressed Gabbard on details about a group chat where she and other high-ranking officials took part in planning a bombing raid on Yemen, but a journalist had been added to the discussion apparently by mistake, and Crow said that raised concerns about the operational security – especially since she and another participant were overseas.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe did not take kindly to being asked if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drunk when he was describing attack plans on Houthi rebels in an unsecured Signal chat that has now become a crisis for Donald Trump's White House.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) first asked DNI director Tulsi Gabbard if she believed Hegseth was alcoholically impaired during the chat that included top White House officials and, unfortunately for all involved, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffery Goldberg.

"So one of the things we're going to look into is if what actually occurred, because the American people deserve a full accounting additionally, the main person who was involved in this thread that a lot of people want to talk to is Secretary of Defense Hegseth and a lot of questions were brought up regarding his drinking habits in his confirmation hearing," Gomez began.

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"To your knowledge do you know whether Pete Hegseth had been drinking before he leaked classified information?" he prompted Gabbard who demurred, "I don't have any knowledge of Secretary Hegseth's personal habits."

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) blasted Trump administration intelligence officials after secret military plans were shared with a journalist from The Atlantic.

During a Wednesday House Intelligence Committee hearing, Houlahan revealed that she had planned to ask about foreign threats until news broke about the leaked war plans against Yemen.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) hearing aimed at defunding PBS and NPR.

During a Wednesday hearing on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), Garcia noted that Republicans were more concerned about agencies for public broadcasting than Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing secret war plans with a reporter.

A Republican member of the House Armed Services committee claimed he was unaware of a major development in an unfolding Pentagon scandal involving the highest levels of government.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, about two hours after The Atlantic published new highly detailed text messages from defense secretary Pete Hegseth revealing plans for a bombing raid in Yemen hours before it was carried out, and said he wasn't sure any crimes were committed by revealing classified information over the non-secure Signal app.

CNN's John Berman pushed back against a Republican lawmaker who tried to downplay the gravity of the scandal swirling around Donald Trump's national security team.

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported new details from the war plans disclosed by defense secretary Pete Hegseth in a group chat to which he had been added, apparently by mistake, and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) told CNN those deliberations should not have occurred on a commercially available encrypted app.

Appearing on MSNBC moments after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made her opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee, national security lawyer Mark Zaid noted the Donald Trump appointee made an admission that deserves investigation.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, and after Gabbard also asserted she couldn't talk in-depth about the Signal chat revelations because of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Zaid focused on Gabbard stating that the Signal app comes pre-installed on government devices.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, and at least one former lawyer thinks that they may have lied under oath about classified intelligence in a group chat.

On Monday, a bombshell report in The Atlantic alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared secret war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership.

Randy Fine, the Trump-endorsed Florida Republican candidate running to replace current national security adviser Mike Waltz, is taking heat from some GOP operatives as he faces a race that is much closer than expected.

Politico reports that Republicans still believe they will prevail in the upcoming special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District, but they are having to devote far more resources toward keeping it red than they should have to, especially since President Donald Trump won the district by 30 points last year.