NonilexMar 25, 2025

The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.

But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.

Testifying:

#DNI Tulsi Gabbard

#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe

Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA

#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse

#FBI director Kash Patel

#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/dni-director-gabbard-fbi-director-patel-other-security-officials-testfy-on-global-threats/431845

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025
Gabbard & Ratcliffe were participants in the Signal group chat.
Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025
Listening to #Gabbard talk about #cyber #espionage I’m like, she’s kidding right?
Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025
#Gabbard just had to explain why #Canada wasn’t in the threat assessment report. She answered that the report only includes countries that present the highest threats. Senator Heinrich specifically pointed to #Trump’s repeated claims there is “massive” & “unusually high” amounts of #fentanyl coming in through Canada to justify #tariffs.
Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

#Gabbard was asked if she knew the percent of fentanyl in the #US that came from #Canada. Clearly concerned that she was about to contradict #Trump, he asked if she could get back to the cmte on that. Senator Heinrich told her, “it’s less that 1%.”

#USpol #geopolitics

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.

Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.

King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.

Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.

The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”

#NationalSecurity #kakistocracy

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.

#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
…
“Did you know the president’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”

#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)

#NationalSecutity #kakistocracy #idiocracy

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details of the #Signal group chat contents:

“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?

#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)

#NationalSecutity #kakistocracy #idiocracy

Show threadNonilex

Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?

#Ratcliffe: Yes

Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.

Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?

Ratcliffe: No.

Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.

#NationalSecutity #kakistocracy #idiocracy

Mar 25, 2025 at 4:18pmWeb
Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.

#NationalSecutity #kakistocracy #idiocracy

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Senator #Ossoff’s questioning of #CIA director #Ratcliffe really was quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1jbbVl7nc

#Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff questions security officials on Signal group chat | 'An embarrassment'

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Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

18 USC 793(f)

just sayin

#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

#Trump stood by his #NationalSecurity adviser, #MichaelWaltz, Tues, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he & other senior admin ofcls used the commercial messaging app #Signal to discuss secret #military plans for Yemen & inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat. During an interview Trump also said Waltz had “learned a lesson.”

#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”

Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.

#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.

[Waltz added him]
#NationalSecurity

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

#MikeWaltz certainly knows how to handle #Trump -- blame the #media & blow smoke up his ass.

#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer

"Another question please"

#SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

#EdDavey, Ldr of the #UK’s Liberal Democrats:

“#JDVance & his mates clearly aren't fit to run a group chat, let alone the world's strongest #military force. It has to make our #security services nervous about the #intelligence we're sharing with them.”

“#Trump's #WhiteHouse can't be trusted. Their reckless approach to security means it's only a matter of time before British intelligence is leaked.

“The Govt must urgently review our intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.”

#geopolitics

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

🚨🚨 #NEW American Oversight is suing #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via #Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187.19.0_3.pdf

#law #NationalSecurity #Trump #SignalGate #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #TulsiGabbard #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller

Show threadNonilexMar 25, 2025

Just ICYMI

#TulsiGabbard was also outside of the #UnitedStates while she took part in the #signal group chat.

“Later in the hearing, #Gabbard also said she was overseas during the time the group chat discussions were underway, but [refused] to say whether she participated using her personal phone.”

#USpol #Trump #Signal #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5213210-national-security-leaders-signal-chat/

Show threadSilvertipGrizzMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex ………… ya think?
Show threadRichard NairnMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex but her emails!!!!
Show threadSimon KeatingMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex boy - he looks old and tired
Show threadSueDiOhMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex If they really want his attention they should tell him what this might do to "his numbers"
Show threadJeremyJupiterJones Mar 25, 2025

@Nonilex

What I want to know is why aren’t the media talking about #USA committing #WarCrimes and its complicity in #Genocide?

Show threadHinz_oder_KunzMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex CNN did a compilation of random people talking about the severity of mishandling classified information. Anybody recognize them?
https://youtu.be/8VDZswMlb5I?feature=shared
CNN Supercut On War Group Chat Scandal

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Show threadUrzlMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex Don't ever use unofficial channels for official business and you won't ever have this problem again.
Show threadSo‑Called VaughnMar 25, 2025

@Nonilex Oh… ‘learned [his] lesson’. Where have I heard that bandied about before?

Spoiler: Sen. Collins (R-ME)

Show threadDarwin WoodkaMar 25, 2025

@Nonilex

Ossoff ate Ratcliffe for lunch.

Show threadNotAnneShirleyMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex , Director Radcliffe does not recall? He is being evasive, untruthful and looking very, very incompetent. (and btw he doesn’t look too bright either).
Show threadEndicottRoad59Mar 25, 2025
@Nonilex Rip him a new one!
Show threadBen BradleyMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex I voted for Ossoff, and I'm proud of him for doing this line of questioning. He's unofficially started a run for reelection, and I'm afraid conservatives will spend "whatever it takes" to have a Republican candidate win against him.
Show threadMatt PanaroMar 26, 2025
@benbradley @Nonilex I also voted for Ossoff; are you a fellow Atlantan, or resident elsewhere in GA?
Show threadBen BradleyMar 27, 2025
@eigen @Nonilex Brookhaven, ITP - I can see Atlanta from my back yard! ;-)
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Mar 26, 2025
@Nonilex Nice job Senator!
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Mar 25, 2025

@Nonilex

They are even unwilling to use the pathetic, responsibility-denying passive voice construction, "mistakes were made."

Show threadtlarivMar 25, 2025
@CindyWeinstein
Ah, the passive exonerative!
@Nonilex
Show threadDarwin WoodkaMar 25, 2025

@Nonilex

we’re just a clown car with nukes now

Show threadUrzlMar 25, 2025

@Nonilex Use their own shit against them now.

If, as Trump has said so often, the press is the enemy then they just handed that information to an enemy.

When are we meant to believe their bullshit? I need clarification.

Show threadBarbara MonacoMar 25, 2025
@Nonilex FFS. GOP, hypocrisy is your name. Democrats can't allow this to be buried. Thanks, Sen. Ossoff.
BTW, Ossoff is running for reelection in Georgia.
He won his last election by only 55,000 votes.
If anyone wants to keep his strong voice in the Senate please do what you can.