As a follow-on to Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the annual national threat assessment, a corresponding hearing was held Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee. Like Tuesday’s hearing, the witnesses before the House committee included DNI Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, NSA Director Timothy Haugh, and DIA Director Jeffrey Kruse.
Gabbard presented a full statement to kick off the hearing, one which addressed the elephant in the room — the recent Atlantic story by Jeffrey Goldberg that has feathers ruffled over the Signal chat between members of the national security team regarding a planned attack on Houthi rebels.
While Tuesday’s hearing featured Democrat senators seizing the moment to lambast the witnesses over the incident, in the intervening hours, a lawsuit was…