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Top US Senators Demand Probe Into Chat Scandal

The Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee have called for an inquiry into 'Signalgate' (Credit: AFP)

Senior Republican and Democratic US senators issued a bipartisan call Thursday for a probe into a scandal over an accidentally leaked chat between top officials on Yemen air strikes that has engulfed Donald Trump's White House.

Republican Senator Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and ranking Democrat Jack Reed wrote to a Pentagon watchdog asking it to "conduct an inquiry" into the incident.

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