Intelligence officials within President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday there was no classified information in the leaked war plans.
Intelligence officials within President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday there was no classified information in the Signal discussion between administration officials, which was inadvertently shared with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
The White House confirmed on Monday that Goldberg had accidentally been added to a Signal chat where cabinet officials discussed the military’s plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe both adamantly said the conversations contained no classified information during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“I was on a Signal messaging group,” Ratcliffe told Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner. “Can I add some context to that? I think it’s important because at the outset you made a couple of comments about Signal messaging using encrypted apps. So that we’re clear, one of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as the CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA as it is for most CIA officers. One of the things that I was briefed on very early, senator by the CIA records management folks about the use of Signal as a permissible work use.
