After the Segens leaks … Trump administration officials in front of Congress
Among the witnesses who will attend the hearing today, Tuesday, in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cash Patel, the director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, and the Director of National Intelligence Toulsi Gabbard, who will continue to certify their certificates on Wednesday before the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives.
Military plans via Signal
The Tuesday session comes one day after the spread of news stating that many senior national security officials in the Trump administration, including Ratcliffe and Defense Minister Beit Higseth, have sent military plans for imminent strikes in Yemen through a group chat in the application of the Chego Signal Correspondent, which included the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic magazine.
Annual hearings on global threats will provide an overview of the reintegration of the Trump administration’s priorities, which officials have described through various agencies as focusing on combating the danger of fentanel, facing violent crime, human trafficking and illegal immigration.
Increasing threats
The former director of the Federal Investigation Office, Christopher Ray, was regularly stated that it was difficult for him to remember a period in his career in which the United States faced many increasing threats at the same time.
But the concerns that were highlighted regularly included the advanced Chinese spy plots, the attacks of the ransom programs that paralyzed hospitals, and international and local terrorism.
“We have to keep up with the changing scene of the dynamic threats that are constantly evolving, not only in America but abroad as well,” Patel said on Sunday evening, noting the increasing danger by drug dealers: “But we will never forget or ignore national security.”
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