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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
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.
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?”
…
“Did you know the president’s Middle East 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 of the #Signal group chat contents:
“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.
#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.
#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.”
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.
Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer
"Another question please"
#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.”
#NEW American Oversight is suing #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via #Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187.19.0_3.pdf
Just ICYMI
#TulsiGabbard was also outside of the #UnitedStates while she took part in the #signal group chat.
“Later in the hearing, #Gabbard also said she was overseas during the time the group chat discussions were underway, but [refused] to say whether she participated using her personal phone.”
#USpol #Trump #Signal #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5213210-national-security-leaders-signal-chat/
@Nonilex JFC do they even want to be secret and secure?
@Nonilex oh man, i gotta see this exchange on video
The answer is always: Yes they are this malicious, and yes they are this stupid.
@Nonilex Ahhh. The old "sleepwalking" defense.
Director Ratcliffe is an embarrassment.
They are even unwilling to use the pathetic, responsibility-denying passive voice construction, "mistakes were made."
@CindyWeinstein
Ah, the passive exonerative!
@Nonilex
Ossoff ate Ratcliffe for lunch.
@Nonilex , Director Radcliffe does not recall? He is being evasive, untruthful and looking very, very incompetent. (and btw he doesn’t look too bright either).
@Nonilex Oh… ‘learned [his] lesson’. Where have I heard that bandied about before?
Spoiler: Sen. Collins (R-ME)
@Nonilex Mlčení je také odpověď.
@Nonilex but her emails!!!!
@Nonilex boy - he looks old and tired
@Nonilex If they really want his attention they should tell him what this might do to "his numbers"
@Nonilex ………… ya think?
@Nonilex This is important. All countries that share classified information with the US should conduct a new risk analysis at this point.
@Nonilex
Asshole can't say shit.....then again ,he tells Vlad everything.
What I want to know is why aren’t the media talking about #USA committing #WarCrimes and its complicity in #Genocide?
@Nonilex CNN did a compilation of random people talking about the severity of mishandling classified information. Anybody recognize them?
https://youtu.be/8VDZswMlb5I?feature=shared
@Nonilex
Dumbass is grinning during the whole clip like the village idiot
@Nonilex Don't ever use unofficial channels for official business and you won't ever have this problem again.
@Nonilex Rip him a new one!
@Nonilex
I think my phone caught on fire from that 
@Nonilex I voted for Ossoff, and I'm proud of him for doing this line of questioning. He's unofficially started a run for reelection, and I'm afraid conservatives will spend "whatever it takes" to have a Republican candidate win against him.
They're waiting to see if Brian Kemp (on his final gubernatorial term) wants to challenge Ossoff. Kemp may have delusions of POTUS-hood.
@benbradley @Nonilex I also voted for Ossoff; are you a fellow Atlantan, or resident elsewhere in GA?
@Nonilex Nice job Senator!
we’re just a clown car with nukes now
@Nonilex Use their own shit against them now.
If, as Trump has said so often, the press is the enemy then they just handed that information to an enemy.
When are we meant to believe their bullshit? I need clarification.
@Nonilex FFS. GOP, hypocrisy is your name. Democrats can't allow this to be buried. Thanks, Sen. Ossoff.
BTW, Ossoff is running for reelection in Georgia.
He won his last election by only 55,000 votes.
If anyone wants to keep his strong voice in the Senate please do what you can.
@Nonilex “I don’t recall” is not the same as “I didn’t notice at the time”. What “I don’t recall” means as an answer is: “I don’t think you and your questions are important enough for me to have bothered reviewing this thing at all before showing up to this meeting”. It shows a lack of remorse and a lack of respect. (As well as incompetence during the event) The lack of respect goes to Rule of Law issues. Which means this is likely to continue and be worse. Plus: what are they doing that hasn’t been accidentally leaked?
@Nonilex In other words, they don't care a whit about the Russian intelligence. They just care about Democrats not getting a political edge.
@Nonilex you don't recall, huh? well, let's take a moment for you to pull your phone out and look at the signal chat then
I'd like to reply to that with the following quote from #PeteHegseth himself:
his *job title* is director of CIA. he is neither qualified, nor attempting to become qualified...
the sad thing here is that the MAGA faithful won't see any of this and won't believe any fault, all while critical national security positiions are being filled by incompetent sycophants.
they should all be fire and prosecuted. starting with cleaning up the DOJ so they *do* get prosecuted.
Everything, right here!
@Nonilex Imagine if this had happened during Biden’s presidency?! Republicans would have been having kittens! Today, crickets.
