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00:00Questions swirled on Tuesday in Washington, after senior intelligence officials were exposed
00:05planning airstrikes on Yemen over the messaging app Signal.
00:10This after a journalist from The Atlantic found himself in a group chat added by the
00:14President's National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.
00:17For the President, it can be chalked down to experience.
00:21Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he's a good man.
00:25But for Mark Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate National Security Committee and a Democrat,
00:29it's a case of quote, sloppy, careless, incompetent behaviour towards classified information.
00:36Putting aside for a moment that classified information should never be discussed over
00:42an unclassified system, it's also just mind boggling to me that all these senior folks
00:49were on this line and nobody bothered to even check security hygiene 101.
00:55Who are all the names?
00:56Who are they?
00:57According to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth shared exact targets,
01:02timings and weapons on the message thread.
01:05CIA Chief John Ratcliffe was grilled at a Senate security hearing and tried desperately
01:10to minimise the breach.
01:12They're talking about the timing of US airstrikes, correct?
01:17Yes, yes.
01:19And therefore the timing of sending US air crews into hostile airspace, correct?
01:24Yes.
01:26And therefore the time period during which enemy air defences could target US air crews
01:31flying in enemy airspace, correct?
01:33I don't know that.
01:34You do know that?
01:36National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard joined him in denying that classified information
01:41was shared on the thread.