John Ratcliffe, a CIA director, acknowledged that he was a member of the Signal party conversations, which the Donald Trump administration played over. Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel made a frenzied appearance in a Senate reading on a unique subject, but the “war plan” chat incident predominated.
FBI director Kash Patel, who was not on the Signal team, sidestepped a question about whether his company may look into the chat hole, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard primarily refused to respond to any inquiries regarding the talk leak.
Ratcliffe claimed that no classified information was exchanged during the presidency range chat. He claimed that no classified information was included in his talk and that it was “entirely acceptable and legal.” Additionally, Ratcliffe argued that it was” of course not” appropriate to include a journalist in a sensitive Signal group discussion between Trump administration officials talking about war plans.
Ratcliffe made the comment as Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet pressed him about the CIA’s guidelines for handling classified information and whether those guidelines were upheld during the Signal talk. Do the CIA’s policies for handling defined data exist? Yes or no, Bennet asked, which gave Ratcliffe an equitable response.
Bennet then questioned Ratcliffe about whether he concurred with Pete Hegseth, the journalist who had described the conversation as “deceitful and very discredited.” Ratcliffe responded that he had no idea about Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist, and that he had never had a personal view of him.
Prior to the U.S. attack on Iran-backed Houthi locations in Yemen on March 15, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported on Monday that he had unintentionally been added to the talk, which was titled” Houthi PC little team.”
