The disclosure of a Signal chat between America’s top foreign policy makers — where battle plans against the Houthis were discussed in the digital presence of the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg — surfaces the possibility of criminal charges. 

Attorney General Bondi, though, appears unlikely to launch a case against her fellow Cabinet members. At a press conference on Thursday she argued that “it was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released.” She told a reporter: “If you want to talk about classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s home.”