Blumenthal: ‘Only by the Grace of a Higher Power’ Were There No U.S. Military Casualties After the Signal Chat Leak

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BLUMENTHAL: “Only by good luck and the grace of a higher power are we not undertaking an after-action report on pilots downed and killed. Remember, the Houthis have highly sophisticated, lethal, Iran-supplied air defense missiles that can bring down the type of aircraft that were used. They had every reason to know when those planes would be over targets, because they can calculate where they were coming from on aircraft carriers and how long it would take them to get there. So, this information posed a clear and present danger to those pilots and other men and women in uniform. So, the fact that there was success in the mission is no reason to disregard the very high risk and danger posed by using this commercial app when they could have used a really secure one.”