Washington – The leaders of the North -American Intelligence Agencies appear on Tuesday in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify about the world security threats facing the country.
The audience, which will begin at 10 am, will have testimonies of the Director of National Intelligence Tlosi Gabbard, director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, director of the FBI, Kash Patel, director of the National Security Agency, the great Timothy Haugh and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, General Jeffrey Kruse.
The testimony comes a day after was revealed Trump’s main officials inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic publisher, in a group chat on the encrypted messaging application on the highly sensitive plans of the United States to bomb Highi targets at Yemen. The accounts that appear to be Gabbard and Ratcliffe participated in the message thread, according to Goldberg.
In the group’s chat, started by President Trump’s national security councilor Mike Waltz, Ratcliffe allegedly shared information « which could be interpreted related to actual and current intelligence operations, » said Goldberg.
The National Security Council said on Monday in a statement to CBS News that the message thread « seems to be authentic. »
While the annual audience is expected to focus on the threats represented by China, Russia and Iran, the heads of intelligence are is likely to be made on the grill about safety lapse. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the highest Democrat of the Committee, he said The story shows that the Trump administration is « playing rapidly and loose with the most classified information of our nation and makes all the North -Americans less secure. »
Intelligence officials are also planned to testify on Wednesday to the House’s Intelligence Committee. The audiences coincide with the release of an annual threat evaluation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
It Report 2024 He said that the United States faced « an increasingly fragile global order » during the coming year, which would be affected by great power competition, regional conflicts and transnational challenges.
In view of last year’s Senate on global threats, Biden’s highest intelligence officials emphasized that North -American assistance in Ukraine was necessary for his survival against the invasion of Russia, and that North -American support in Ukraine also sent a message of deterrent to China, as their eyes invaded Taiwan.
President Trump, who campaigned to end the war in Ukraine, has taken a kinder tone for Russia and temporarily paused for sharing intelligence and security assistance in Ukraine after an oval office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He recently refused to comment on whether the United States would prevent China from taking Taiwan forcibly as long as it was president.
Trump also presses on Iran to negotiate a new nuclear agreement, warning that there could be potential military action.
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