Top US Intel Officials Defend Signal Chats Seen by Journalist
Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on March 25.
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The US’s top two intelligence officials defended their participation in a Signal messaging chat in which attack plans for strikes against Houthi rebels were shared, and denied that the information they discussed was classified.
“My communications, to be clear, in a Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information,” Central Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe told lawmakers on Tuesday.