CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard defended their handling of sensitive national security information at a March 25 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, as they faced questions about an apparently accidental leak of details on renewed U.S. strikes on Yemen.
Originally planned as an open hearing on worldwide threats, the Senate hearing came just one day after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, reported that he was looped into a group chat with Trump administration officials on the encrypted messaging app Signal. In the chat, according to Goldberg, the officials appeared to discuss a then-forthcoming plan to strike Yemen’s Houthi terrorists.
