Explosive Signal Scandal Triggers Fierce Confrontation Between Senator Bennett and CIA Director

Diario As

25/3/2025

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00:00for holding this hearing and thank you for being here Mr. Director Ratcliffe it sounds to me like

00:07your testimony today in the sector and the DNI's testimony is that there was nothing wrong at all

00:14with the signal thread that you were on that it didn't include any targeting information or battle

00:24sequence that that is your testimony that's your testimony and I'm a little staggered that that is

00:35your view Director Ratcliffe does the CIA have any rules about handling of classified information

00:42yes or no yes thank you Director Ratcliffe do you agree Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth

00:50said this morning when asked by members of the press uh what had happened he he he said this

00:58morning in Hawaii that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeff Goldberg is a quote deceitful and highly

01:05discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of providing hoaxes time and time

01:11again do you share that evaluation the Secretary of Defense's evaluation of Jeff Goldberg as a

01:18journalist Senator I didn't see those comments I don't know Jeff Goldberg so do you share that

01:24view of the Secretary of Defense well I I don't have a view on okay of do you do you assuming that

01:31he has that view um I'm curious about whether you are the CIA Director okay this has happened

01:39we know it's happened did Jeff Goldberg um somehow was it a did he create a hoax that

01:47allowed him to become part of this signal thread please answer the question you you don't don't

01:55don't insult the intelligence of the American people did he invite himself to the signal thread

02:04I don't know how he was invited but clearly he was added clearly it was finish your sentence please

02:11I clearly he was added to the signal group I your question is you don't know that the that the that

02:19the President's National Security Advisor uh invited him to join the the signal thread everybody

02:27in America knows that does the CIA Director not know that um I've seen conflicting reports about

02:32who added um the reporter to the signal messages it's perfectly appropriate that there there was a

02:41reporter added especially one that the that the Secretary of Defense says is deceitful highly

02:47discredited a so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes over and over again

02:53do you are is your testimony that it was appropriate that he was added to this signal

02:59thread no of course not and why why did you not hold on you are the mischaracterizing my testimony

03:06you can you answered the question let me ask you when he was added to the thread you're the CIA

03:12Director why didn't you call out that his he was present on the signal thread I don't know if you

03:20use signal messaging app I do I do not for classified information not for targeting well

03:27neither do I Senator neither do I Senator well that's what your testimony is today it absolutely

03:32is not Senator were you not listening at the beginning no when I said that I was using it

03:38as permitted it is permissible I agree that's your testimony yeah I agree that's your testimony you

03:44asked me if I use it and I said not for targeting not for classified information and I said I don't

03:50either I also know Jeff Goldberg I don't use it to to to communicate with him but you thought it

03:58was appropriate by the way I think he's one of the more outstanding journalists in America but I'm

04:04shocked to find him on a thread that he's reading in the parking lot of a grocery store in Washington

04:10DC and your testimony as the Director of the CIA is that it's totally appropriate is it appropriate

04:17no that is not what I okay when did I use the word appropriate well go ahead please well I didn't

04:26that everybody in America clearly Senator is what your testimony is no I never said this is just a

04:33normal day at the CIA where we chat about this kind of stuff over signal in fact it's so normal

04:40that the last administration left it here for us that's your testimony today that's your testimony

04:47no that's not my testimony that's what you said I didn't say any of those things that you just

04:50related I heard you say it we'll let the American people decide let me ask you one final point

04:55mischaracterized it well are you going to give me a chance is it appropriate did you know that the

04:59President's Middle East advisor was in Moscow on this thread while you were as Director of the CIA

05:11participating in this in this thread were you aware of that are you are you aware of that today

05:18I'm not aware of that this sloppiness this incompetence this disrespect for our intelligence

05:25agencies and the personnel who work for him is entirely unacceptable it's an embarrassment

05:33Senator you need to do better you need to do better thank you I'm being gaveled by the

05:40chairman and I apologize for

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