Senate will question US intelligence officials on national security threats after war plans exposed

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-cia-senate-national-security-threats-fe773ac76f8f01eba1d3a26409816396

Senate will question US intelligence officials on national security threats after war plans exposed
By ERIC TUCKER and DAVID KLEPPER
Updated 8:14 AM CDT, March 25, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials face Congress this week to offer their first testimony in office about the threats facing the United States and tackle urgent questions about the security breach that unfolded when war plans were mistakenly leaked to a journalist.

FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are among the witnesses who will appear Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee and Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee in back-to-back hearings.

Tuesday’s hearing will take place one day after news broke that several top national security officials in the Republican administration, including Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, texted war plans for military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic.

The text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” Goldberg reported. The strikes began two hours after Goldberg received the details.

“Horrified” by the leak of what is historically strictly guarded information, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, said he will be demanding answers in the hearing, as will others.

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Don't let them sweep it under the rug

[newdeal2]

1. I expect Republicans to run defense

They’re all good boys and learned their lesson, they swear. No further inquiry needed.

Now about those emails…

[dalton99a]

2. +1. "Let's move on"

[newdeal2]

5. Mikey already signaled as much

Less than 24 hours later. Not even pretending to do their jobs.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. You naughty boys! Thirty lashes with #3 pencil and no lunch today!

So take that!

[Lovie777]

4. Senate republicans will protect them...............

[SheltieLover]

7. Of course they will! They're all traitors! If not, they would've left the party.

[SheltieLover]

6. But Obama wore a tan suit once!

Can't you just hear it?

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. And he ate brown mustard

And a funky vegetable 😀

[SheltieLover]

12. Lol. That must be the cause of this!

[Martin68]

8. It's about time. This administration is rife with security risks including the people being assigned to sensitive posts

and a refusal to acknowledge or follow standard security protocols (such as an ex-president moving boxes of classified material from th White House and keeping them in a private residence in an unsecured location.)

[travelingthrulife]

9. And then the Senate will do nothing about it.

[NotHardly]

10. Senate will question US intelligence officials on national security threats after war plans exposed

... and that's the joke.

[William769]

13. This Senate is just as inept.

[joshdawg]

14. One will lie and the others will swear to it.

They are republicans and republicans will lie out of their asses, their mouths know better.
Nothing to see here.