Trump Officials Say Secret Group Chat Wasn’t Classified But Won’t Give Reporter Permission to Publish Info

Top intelligence officials from the Trump regime, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, appeared before lawmakers on Tuesday where they were asked about a Signal group chat that accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. The big takeaway: the officials insisted that none of the information they discussed was classified, but refused to share the information that was discussed and when asked whether the Atlantic editor could share it with the public, they wouldn’t give the green light for him to do that either. Ratcliffe and Gabbard were testifying to the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday for a hearing that had been scheduled long before the story in The Atlantic broke Monday. Ratcliffe and Gabbard were just two officials on a large group chat discussing plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen, a chat that included others like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and National Security Advi ... Read full article.