The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.
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The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.
But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.
Testifying:
#DNI Tulsi Gabbard
#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe
Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA
#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse
#FBI director Kash Patel
#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/dni-director-gabbard-fbi-director-patel-other-security-officials-testfy-on-global-threats/431845 -
The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.
But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.
Testifying:
#DNI Tulsi Gabbard
#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe
Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA
#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse
#FBI director Kash Patel
#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/dni-director-gabbard-fbi-director-patel-other-security-officials-testfy-on-global-threats/431845Gabbard & Ratcliffe were participants in the Signal group chat.
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Gabbard & Ratcliffe were participants in the Signal group chat.
Listening to #Gabbard talk about #cyber #espionage I’m like, she’s kidding right?
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Listening to #Gabbard talk about #cyber #espionage I’m like, she’s kidding right?
#Gabbard just had to explain why #Canada wasn’t in the threat assessment report. She answered that the report only includes countries that present the highest threats. Senator Heinrich specifically pointed to #Trump’s repeated claims there is “massive” & “unusually high” amounts of #fentanyl coming in through Canada to justify #tariffs.
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#Gabbard just had to explain why #Canada wasn’t in the threat assessment report. She answered that the report only includes countries that present the highest threats. Senator Heinrich specifically pointed to #Trump’s repeated claims there is “massive” & “unusually high” amounts of #fentanyl coming in through Canada to justify #tariffs.
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Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.
Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.
King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.
Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.
The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”
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Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.
Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.
King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.
Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.
The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”
Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.
#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
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“Did you know the president’s national security adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)
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Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.
#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
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“Did you know the president’s national security adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)
Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details:
“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)
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Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details:
“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)
The answer is always: Yes they are this malicious, and yes they are this stupid.
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Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details:
“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)
Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?
#Ratcliffe: Yes
Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.
Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
Ratcliffe: No.
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.
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Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?
#Ratcliffe: Yes
Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.
Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
Ratcliffe: No.
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.
#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.
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#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.
Senator #Ossoff’s questioning of #CIA director #Ratcliffe really was quite impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1jbbVl7nc
#Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
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Senator #Ossoff’s questioning of #CIA director #Ratcliffe really was quite impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1jbbVl7nc
#Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
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#Trump stood by his #NationalSecurity adviser, #MichaelWaltz, Tues, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he & other senior admin ofcls used the commercial messaging app #Signal to discuss secret #military plans for Yemen & inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat. During an interview Trump also said Waltz had “learned a lesson.”
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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#Trump stood by his #NationalSecurity adviser, #MichaelWaltz, Tues, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he & other senior admin ofcls used the commercial messaging app #Signal to discuss secret #military plans for Yemen & inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat. During an interview Trump also said Waltz had “learned a lesson.”
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”
Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.
#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.
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Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”
Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.
#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.
[Waltz added him]
#NationalSecurity#MikeWaltz certainly knows how to handle #Trump -- blame the #media & blow smoke up his ass.
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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#MikeWaltz certainly knows how to handle #Trump -- blame the #media & blow smoke up his ass.
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer
"Another question please"
#SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
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Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer
"Another question please"
#SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
#EdDavey, Ldr of the #UK’s Liberal Democrats:
“#JDVance & his mates clearly aren't fit to run a group chat, let alone the world's strongest #military force. It has to make our #security services nervous about the #intelligence we're sharing with them.”
“#Trump's #WhiteHouse can't be trusted. Their reckless approach to security means it's only a matter of time before British intelligence is leaked.
“The Govt must urgently review our intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.”
