{"id":515,"date":"2025-03-30T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:42:29","slug":"gabbard-ratcliffe-lied-repeatedly-about-signal-chat-messages-bennet-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/gabbard-ratcliffe-lied-repeatedly-about-signal-chat-messages-bennet-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard, Ratcliffe ‘lied repeatedly’ about Signal chat messages, Bennet says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe \u201clied repeatedly\u201d about messages in a Signal group chat in which top members of the Trump administration discussed an attack on Yemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntelligence officials told your committee this week that no classified information was shared. Do you believe that directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?\u201d NBC News\u2019s Kristen Welker asked Bennet on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee. Kristen, let me try to make this as simple as I can,\u201d Bennet replied. \u201cI think the American people know this. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Bennet labeled the Signal incident<\/a> disrespectful to rank-and-file intelligence officers during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for them is entirely unacceptable. It\u2019s an embarrassment. Do better. You need to do better,\u201d he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Bennet wasn\u2019t the only Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee to critique the Signal incident Tuesday. The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), went after Trump officials for the lack of care shown in their including a journalist and disregarding security protocols using Signal for discussion of an important operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of declassified information that shows that our adversaries, China and Russia, are trying to break into encrypted systems,\u201d Warner said Tuesday, adding that the Trump administration had demonstrated \u201ccareless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information, that \u2026 is not a one-off or a first-time error.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his interview on \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Bennet said there is a \u201cneed\u201d for \u201cthe top members of our intelligence community to be nonpartisan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need them to tell the truth to the American people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Hill has reached out to Gabbard\u2019s office and the CIA for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said on Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe \u201clied repeatedly\u201d about messages in a Signal group chat in which top members of the Trump administration discussed an attack on Yemen. \u201cIntelligence officials told your committee this week that no classified information was shared. Do you believe that directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}