Democratic Senator Rips Intelligence Chiefs, Accuses Them Of Lying To Congress | EUROtoday

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on Sunday accused Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe of mendacity to Congress in regards to the significance of the messages exchanged by senior Trump administration officers in a Signal group chat targeted on army strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

The Trump administration has come underneath intense scrutiny after Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported he was inadvertently added to the textual content thread wherein Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared an operational replace, together with exact timings about when the U.S. warplanes would launch and strike the Houthis.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Bennet stated Gabbard and Ratcliffe “lied repeatedly” each to the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House panel after they stated no labeled info was shared in that chat.

“I think the American people know this,” Bennet stated. “If this material was not classified, literally nothing that I’ve ever heard as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee over all these years is classified. I wish I could say that we have deep, dark secrets that are even more classified than this, but it’s not true.”

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, echoed Bennet, telling ABC’s “This Week” “there’s no question” that the group chat included labeled info.

Bennet added that the explanation the story has resonated with the general public is that Americans notice the data contained was delicate regardless of the intelligence chiefs’ claims, arguing that Gabbard and Ratcliffe needs to be pressured out of their positions.

“We need, you know, the top members of our intelligence community to be nonpartisan. We need them to tell the truth to the American people,” he added.

President Donald Trump has insisted nobody will lose their job over the scandal.

“I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” he instructed NBC News.