Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday that the use of Signal among government officials is “permissible” for

On March 25th the White House denied that “war plans” or any other classified material was sent in the chat. Ms Gabbard and Mr Ratcliffe, speaking to the Senate’s intelligence committee, issued similar denials.

Pete Hegseth was not drunk when he discussed plans to bomb Yemen in a group chat which included a journalist, the director of the CIA has said.

According to the CIA chief, the practice of communicating ... Politico reported that, citing sources in the White House, that roughly a half of the administration thought that Waltz “should ...

Leading Democrats called it “sloppy, careless and incompetent. But in the US Senate the CIA chief denied that the incident was a “huge mistake”. Mr Trump insisted that no classified material was shared in the chat, which inadvertently included the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. A claim which Mr Goldberg said was flat-out wrong.

Top White House officials acknowledged it was ‘not appropriate’ for The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief to be included in the chat, but maintained that no classified materials were disclosed.

And I'm saying it for the record.” The new release includes hundreds of CIA records as well as White House and National Security Council documents relating to covert operations abroad ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has deployed additional warplanes to reinforce the Pentagon's naval assets in the Middle East, the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday, amid a bombing campaign in Yemen and heightened tensions with Iran.