US EditionAlaska’s Republican U.S. senators criticize Trump administration officials over leaked Signal chat
- On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and other top U.S. Intelligence officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington, where discussions were dominated by a security breach involving sensitive military plans for a U.S. Bombing campaign in Yemen that occurred earlier this month.
- The security breach occurred when national security officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, used Signal, an open-source messaging app, to discuss the plans and Michael Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to the Principals Committee group chat.
- The Atlantic subsequently published the Signal messages, revealing that Hegseth had sent detailed war plans well before the U.S. Attack began, and prompting scrutiny of the use of civilian software for sensitive government matters.
- Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Joaquin Castro, criticized the Trump administration officials, with Krishnamoorthi displaying a placard of Hegseth's messages announcing the launch of F-18 fighters and MQ-9 drones as the attack began, while Gabbard and other officials insisted that no classified information was shared.
- Following the incident, Alaska's Republican U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan criticized the Trump administration, with Murkowski expressing being appalled by the egregious security breach and Sullivan stating that Trump's national security team needs to up their game, although they stopped short of calling for resignations, while the White House downplayed the security lapse and a review is underway.
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Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators criticize Trump administration officials over leaked Signal chat
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan also said the texts, which included emojis and detailed plans on airstrikes in Yemen, “should give Alaskans confidence that our military and intelligence leaders are deliberative and serious minded.”
U.S. intel leaders are grilled again about the leaked Signal chat as more details emerge
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other top U.S. intelligence officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday — in a session dominated by discussion of an extraordinary breach of security.Gabbard, who as DNI is the head of the U.S. intelligence community, was part of a high-level group chat on Signal, an open-source messaging app, where officials discussed detailed plans for…
Intelligence Leaders Grilled by Democrats Over Handling of Military Information on Signal Chat
Democratic members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe during an open hearing on March 26 over their handling of a Signal chat that described an ongoing U.S. military operation and was inadvertently shared with a journalist. Congressional ire stemmed from the publication of a March 24 article in The Atlantic in which the magazine’s editor-in-chief, …
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