The Senate Intelligence Committee held its annual hearing on the worldwide threat assessment on Tuesday morning, and, as expected, it included some fairly lively exchanges, particularly on the matter of the recent Atlantic story from Jeffrey Goldberg regarding his inclusion in a Signal chat between senior administration officials regarding operations involving the Houthis.
What should come as little surprise to anyone is how animated the Democrat senators were over the matter, which, in a fascinating turn of events, came to light on Monday, just ahead of Tuesday’s hearing. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of any interest on the Democrats’ part regarding Russia, Iran, China, cartels, or any of the standard and well-known national security threats.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe faced off with several of the Democrat senators on the matter and largely…