At a Tuesday hearing, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and DNI Tulsi Gabbard struggle to explain how info about targets, weapons, and attack sequencing is unclassified. Democrats weren’t having it.
Democrats today ripped into Trump administration officials over their “war plans” Signal chat, with Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner calling the incident “sloppy” and a „colossal screw-up.”
At a hearing on Capitol Hill, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both insisted that the chat did not include classified information, which Sen. Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said “didn’t make sense.”
On Monday, Jeffrey Rosenberg, editor of The Atlantic, revealed that he was accidentally added to a Signal group chat of top Trump officials, who earlier this month discussed plans for a bombing campaign in Yemen over the course of several days. That attack took place on March 15, but none of those on the chat, including Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, noticed Goldberg was there.
Today’s hearing on worldwide threats, which also included FBI Director Kash Patel, was scheduled before the Atlantic story published. However, every Democrat took their time at the mic to excoriate the Trump officials over the misstep, while Republicans largely ignored it.
