PNN – A senior member of the US House Intelligence Committee said that there was a possibility that American troops would be killed for leaking information on the Signal messenger, and it was God’s grace that American troops were not killed for revealing the plan to attack Yemen.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Democratic Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut said on Wednesday local time at a House Intelligence Committee hearing: Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have gotten all this information and they could have passed it on to the Houthis (Ansarullah Yemen), they could have easily changed the weapons and changed their plans to shoot down planes or sink ships. I think it is by the grace of God that we are not mourning American pilots right now.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), testified at the hearing that they are focused on foreign threats.
Their testimony comes as The Atlantic published other messages from conversations between senior Trump administration officials on the Signal messaging group, which the Trump administration has denied contain classified information.
The Connecticut congressman added that the appropriate response to a mistake like this is “an apology. Until the cause of the mistake is determined, all action should be halted.”
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Himes said: But that hasn’t happened. The Secretary of Defense responded in a hostile manner. Yesterday, Mike Waltz did the same thing at the White House and then went on Fox to call whistleblower Jeffrey Goldberg a loser.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a veteran American journalist and editor of The Atlantic, announced that the National Security Council of the Donald Trump administration mistakenly added him to a confidential group chat on the Signal messenger, shared information with him about airstrikes on Houthi (Ansarullah) positions in Yemen, and learned about conversations between senior American officials about attacks on Yemen.
A day after the US government’s security scandal and the disclosure of details of its attack on Yemen on the Signal messenger, with the addition of the editor of the Atlantic magazine to the group, which included Trump administration security officials, the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned intelligence officials.
Officials in the group discussed the need for strikes on Yemen and the Trump administration’s justifications for them. “I’m amazed that no one in the group noticed my presence,” Goldberg wrote, following the conversation on the Signal app.
The Atlantic editor went on to say that he had voluntarily withheld some of the information in Hegsett’s lengthy letter, saying that its contents “could be used by enemies of the United States to harm American forces and intelligence personnel.”
President Donald Trump told NBC News on Tuesday that he still had confidence in his national security adviser, Mike Waltz. When asked if he was upset that the Atlantic story was getting attention, Trump said no, calling it “just a technical glitch in the last two months” and not a serious problem.
The United States has launched massive airstrikes against Houthi (Ansarullah) positions in Yemeni provinces since March 15.