Did Signalgate Leak A U.S. War Crime?

Signalgate won’t go away.

Yesterday, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Texas posted on social media that he believes Vice President JD Vance was celebrating the orchestration of a war crime when he responded within the now infamous Signal group chat.

National Security Advisor Waltz said “VP, building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.”

Vance responded, “What?”

Waltz continued, “Typing too fast. The first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and now it’s collapsed.”

Vance replies, “Excellent.”

Rep. Frost was not amused:

“Another disgusting part of all of this is the proof a blatant war crime to which the Vice President of the United States responded: Excellent.” writes Frost.

According to the ICC, war crimes include “torture, mutilation, corporal punishment, hostage taking and acts of terrorism. This category also covers violations of human dignity such as rape and forced prostitution, looting and execution without trial. War crimes, unlike crimes against humanity, are always committed in times of war.”

In this case, Rep. Frost seems to be indicating this action was one of terrorism by the United States against the citizens of Yemen, which is apt. 53 people were killed in this attack, including 5 children, and 98 were wounded.

Waltz told ABC News the strikes "targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out".

Secretary of Defense Hegseth, who was also in that Signal group chat, told Fox Business “I want to be very clear, this campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence.”

No U.S. official involved in the chat has expressed any remorse regarding the civilians who were wounded and killed by the United States.

The Houthis have been attacking Red Sea shipping as a response to Israel’s blockade of Gaza and vowed there will be further attacks as a reaction to the U.S. strike.