Intelligence Leaders Grilled by Democrats Over Handling of Military Information on Signal Chat

Democratic members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe during an open hearing on March 26 over their handling of a Signal chat that described an ongoing U.S. military operation and was inadvertently shared with a journalist. Congressional ire stemmed from the publication of a March 24 article in The Atlantic in which the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that national security adviser Mike Waltz added him to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal. That chat allegedly included Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Gen. Michael Kurilla, Vice President JD Vance, and others....