#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

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

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

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

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

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

#NationalSecutity #kakistocracy #idiocracy

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

18 USC 793(f)

just sayin

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

#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

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