[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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           PROTECTING DETAILS OF ONGOING MILITARY OPERATIONS

  (Mr. VINDMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VINDMAN. Mr. Speaker, Signalgate is real. Protecting the details 
of ongoing military operations is a critical and basic requirement to 
ensure our national security and the safety of our military personnel. 
I know this from my 25 years in the Army and from my work on the 
National Security Council.
  I join my colleague, Congressman Pat Ryan, in calling for an 
immediate congressional investigation of Signalgate. If the messages 
aren't classified and contain no sensitive war plans, as the 
administration claims, they should be released immediately.
  I am calling for the full conversation to be shared with Congress so 
that we can fulfill our oversight role and verify the administration's 
accounting of events. If the administration truly believes no lines 
were crossed, no war plans discussed, and no classified information 
shared, then they should release the messages and let Members of 
Congress and the American people see for themselves, as the President 
has done in the past, and defend those actions publicly.
  The American people deserve transparency and confidence. We must 
verify that no laws were broken and ensure our national security isn't 
being used as a shield to avoid accountability. American lives are at 
stake.

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