Officials run for cover after revelation of top secret war plans chat on unclassified text messaging service
DNI Tulsi Gabbard and DCIA John Ratcliffe were grilled by Democrats about the Signal leak during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday
Poor Pete Hegseth. He got run over Tuesday by the clown car packed with Trump’s comical national security team, which would be funny, as they say, if it weren’t so serious.
Two of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials threw the new defense secretary under the bus at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday. That’s when outraged Democrats used a fortuitously timed hearing on global threats to demand answers to how and why they had included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in their discussion of classified plans for a U.S. attack on Yemen—on Signal, no less, a supposedly encrypted commercial messaging app that the Pentagon had warned employees in 2023 was not suitable for discussing classified information. Not only that, a few days after the Yemen discussion—but before Goldberg disclosed it—the Pentagonwarned employees in an agency-wide bulletin that Signal users were being targeted by Russian hackers.