I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Yesterday I questioned Trump Administration officials about the Vance/Hegseth/Gabbard/Rubio group chat on Yemen that also included... national political reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.
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It goes without saying that accidentally disclosing high-level deliberations about imminent military operations is amateurish and incompetent.
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The media has focused on the drama at the end of my questioning, when I rebuked CIA Director John Ratcliffe for refusing to acknowledge that this was a huge mistake by the Trump White House.
But I want to highlight why this was a huge mistake:
By inadvertently disclosing the potential timing of U.S. air strikes in Yemen, the grossly incompetent officials on this Signal group put U.S. air crews at risk.
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Now imagine what would happen to a U.S. military servicemember who accidentally texted a national political reporter about imminent American military operations.
At minimum they'd probably lose their security clearance.
They might be court-martialed.
These Trump officials won't even acknowledge the gravity of their error.
And they'll likely face no consequences.
That is what makes yesterday's evasion and deflection by Administration officials so outrageous.
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Now more than ever, we need hard-hitting oversight.
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