'What's wrong with these people?' Intel chiefs' question dodging shocks Senate watchers
Neither the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard nor CIA Director John Ratcliffe would give definitive answers on the Signal war plans leak that dominated Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Gabbard refused to confirm that she was even on the group chat, while neither she nor Ratcliffe would confirm whether the nature of the information shared were either "war plans" or "classified."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) posted to X, " Director Gabbard refuses to say whether or not it was on a private or issued phone. … AND Ratcliffe is trying to get his mind right— 'I think that’s consistent with my recollection.'"
"Tulsi Gabbard just refused 3 times to state whether or not she was included in the Signal group chat. Mark Warner did a great job here. What cowards," posted writer Brian Krassenstein.
Journalist Kevin Baron wrote, "In any normal world Waltz, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Hegseth at minimum should be offering their immediate resignations. They've been in public office less than two months and already have violated their oaths, endangered national security, potentially criminally."
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Ana Navarro-Cardenas, with The View, posted, "Tulsi Gabbard is so beyond her skis, it’s almost painful to watch her try to stay afloat in this hearing. My God."
Grassroots political organization Really American posted, "Tulsi GabbardGabbard is not qualified for this position."
Podcaster Fred Wellman wrote in one brief post featuring a video of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) grilling CIA Director Ratcliffe, "Hammer these liars."
In a separate post, Wellman wrote, "They are lying. The entire conversation was classified by the very nature of the principles involved. It was an illegal use of a disappearing messaging app which none of them objected to. Hegseth appears to have copied and pasted the targeting packages into the chat, and Witkoff was literally in Moscow when he joined the chat. This is a thousand times worse than they want you to know. Those three issues alone are cause for resignations and massive investigations about the use of that app and how much intelligence has been compromised by these incompetent fools."