Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by Sharon Zhang on Truthout on March 25, 2025.
The US’s airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) has flamed Democrats for misplaced priorities as they rage over the Trump administration’s leak of sensitive information on the U.S.’s bombing of Yemen earlier this month — but not over the strikes themselves, which reportedly killed dozens of civilians.
“More heat for using a group chat than for the bombing itself,” Tlaib said in a post on social media on Monday.
Tlaib’s post was in response to congressional Democrats and some Republicans demanding accountability after The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed in an article on Monday that he had been seemingly inadvertently looped in on sensitive war plans on the private messaging app Signal.
In the article, Goldberg discusses how he was included in a group chat with top U.S. officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and others. In the chat entitled “Houthi PC small group,” which convened days before the March 15 and 16 U.S. strikes on Yemen, the officials discussed the impending strikes.
Some lawmakers are calling for investigations into the leak, while others are calling for officials responsible to resign. “This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll,” said House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pennsylvania) to Axios. “We need a full investigation and hearing into this on the House Armed Services Committee, ASAP.”
