Tulsi Gabbard & John Ratcliffe Face Senate Fury, Struggle To Defend Chat US War Chat Leak

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Tulsi Gabbard & John Ratcliffe Face Senate Fury: Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe faced intense scrutiny in a fiery Senate hearing over the leaked U.S. war plan discussions related to Houthi military operations. Senators grilled the two Trump-era officials over the security breach, demanding answers on how classified details ended up in private chat groups. As the hearing grew heated, Gabbard appeared defensive, while Ratcliffe struggled to justify the leak’s implications.

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00:00To be clear, I haven't participated in any signal group messaging that relates to any classified

00:07information at all. Did this conversation at some point include information on weapons packages,

00:15targets, or timing? Not that I'm aware of. Senator, I can attest to the fact there were

00:21no classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group at any time.

00:28My colleagues and I feel very strongly about the war planning meeting over unclassified phones.

00:34Obviously reckless, obviously dangerous. Both the mishandling of classified information and

00:39the deliberate destruction of federal records are potential crimes that ought to be investigated

00:44immediately. And I want to make clear that I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations,

00:49starting with the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of Defense.

00:53Director Ratcliffe and Director Gabbard, have you participated in any other group chats with

01:01senior Trump administration officials in which classified information was shared using phones

01:06that weren't cleared for such information? Question for the two of you. Senator, thank you

01:12for the question. Your question was, have I participated in any other group chats sharing

01:18classified information? To be clear, I haven't participated in any signal group messaging that

01:25relates to any classified information at all. Okay. Director Gabbard? Senator, I have the same

01:32answer. I have not participated in any signal group chat or any other chat on another app that

01:37contained any classified information. Director Patel, you weren't in this particular group chat,

01:42but have you participated in any chats on unclassified phones with other administration

01:47officials relating to national security? And if so, on what other topics? Thank you. Thank you

01:54for your question, Senator. Not that I can recall. Did this conversation at some point include

02:00information on weapons packages, targets, or timing? Not that I'm aware of.

02:09Director Gabbard, same question.

02:11Same answer, and defer to the Department of Defense on that question.

02:15Well, those are two different answers, but you're saying that did not, that was not part of the

02:21conversation? That's my knowledge. Precise operational issues were not part of this conversation? Correct.

02:26Okay. Director Gabbard, I didn't intend to get into the Jeffrey Goldberg story, but something you said

02:35has sort of puzzled me. According to open source reporting at 1144 on the morning of March 15th,

02:45Secretary Hedsef put into this group text a detailed operation plan including targets,

02:53the weapons we were going to be using, attack sequences, and timing, and yet you've testified

02:59that nothing in that chain was classified. Wouldn't that be classified? What if that had

03:06been made public that morning before the attack took place? Senator, I can attest to the fact

03:14that there were no classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group

03:19at any time. So the attack sequencing, and timing, and weapons, and targets you don't consider should

03:27have been classified? I defer to the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council on

03:30that question. Well, you're the head of the intelligence community. You're supposed to know

03:36about classifications. So your testimony very clearly today is that nothing was in that set

03:41of texts that were classified. I'll follow up on Senator Wyden's question. If that's the case,

03:46please release that whole text stream so that the public can have a view of what actually

03:53transpired on this discussion. It's hard for me to believe that targets, and timing, and weapons

04:00would not have been classified. Don't miss out. Log on to OneIndia.com for more updates.

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