The inclusion of a magazine editor on what our foreign policy team thought was a secure channel, the strong possibility that classified material was posted on this private chat, and the ever-changing stories and competing claims by those involved shows why our U.S. Congress needs to do its job, and investigate what happened. Otherwise, our government will continue to make such blunders, making it easier for our adversaries to find out exactly what we’re doing.

The use of Congressional investigations goes back to our earliest days as a republic. Congress investigated George Washington’s Administration for the performance of our military after our humiliating defeat at the Battle of the Wabash. No administration is above the law, and no president walks on water.

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is @JohnTures2.