Two of the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials denied in a frequently contentious Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday that classified information was shared in an encrypted group chat in which details of an attack on Yemen were discussed in the presence of a journalist who had been mistakenly added to the conversation.
Pressed repeatedly about the security breach in the previously scheduled intelligence committee hearing, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, both denied that classified material had been shared in the chat in which they were included.
“I don’t think most Americans care one way or another,” Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said of the mistake to include a journalist in a group chat about a strike in Yemen. Kennedy agreed that mistakes were made but downplayed the incident, adding that most outside of Washington were “a lot more concerned about the cost of living. I don’t think there is concern about war plans being discussed on a Signal group chat.”
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