What US intel chief Tulsi Gabbard said on leaked Yemen chat in Senate hearing | World News
In a monumental blunder the US President Donald Trump’s adminration to include a prominent journal in a Signal app group where plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi rebels group in Yemen were discussed, National Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard was asked about her involvement in the matter as she appeared before the US Senate.
Tulsi Gabbard, who was also part of the leaked group chat, was asked if she was involved in the group chat discussing sensitive plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, to which the US intelligence chief rescinded saying she doesn’t want to get into it as the matter remains under review.
“Senator, I don’t want to get into this,” Gabbard responded to a question Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner. Gabbard supported her statement claiming that the matter of leaked chat remains under review the National Security Council.
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Warner, during the session of US Senate, said that American lives could have been lost because of the chat’s disclosure about US plans to strike Houthi militants.
Meanwhile, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe who also appeared before the Senate, admitted to the fact that he was involved in the chat which got disclosed in public after a journal was added to it.
But Ratcliffe claimed that the part of chat where his conversation appears was “entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”
Tulsi Gabbard, during her deposition before the Senate, said that there were no classified or intelligence equities included in the chat group at any given point in time, CNN reported.Story continues below this ad
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it was an “error in judgement” that led to the inadvertent blunder top Trump adminration’s national security officials to send war plans in a Signal group chat that included a journal.
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