Leon Panetta, who served as both the secretary of defense and director of the CIA under Barack Obama, said on Monday that Trump administration officials “need to be fired” following revelations that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was inadvertently added to a group chat detailing recent airstrikes in Yemen.
“I hope the White House takes this seriously because the last thing you want to do when you’re talking about war plans is to have a serious leak like this that could undermine the war plans but also jeopardize lives,” Panetta declared during a CNN interview. “So I hope they take this seriously.”
