Top intelligence officials skirted questions from senators on Tuesday about their involvement in a Signal group chat where they gave an unintentionally added journalist a front-row seat to discussions about war plans.
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe about the group chat fiasco during a hearing on worldwide threats. Gabbard and Ratcliffe responded by insisting that no classified information was shared in the chat but did not agree to Warner’s pushes for them to share the content of the messages with the panel.
Asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff if the accidental inclusion of the journalist was a “huge mistake,” Ratcliffe said “no.”