Officials in the former president’s administration, though, said they never used the app for classified information — and certainly never for war plans.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe is blaming President Joe Biden's administration for a conversation on an encrypted app that may have included classified intelligence information. A bombshell report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday that the use of Signal among government officials is “permissible” for internal discussions following the accidental leak of military plans on the platform.