Watch Live: Intel Chiefs is witnessing the House of Representatives Committee with new signal texts

Washington – The Director of National Intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, returned to Capitol Heil to testify before the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday with the emergence of new text messages from Group chat Trump’s senior officials discussed sensitive plans to strike goals in Yemen.

Shortly before the start of the session, the Atlantic Ocean Published Additional messages that were originally blocked by Defense Minister Beit Higseth provided detailed information to a group of Trump’s senior officials about strikes, including timing when combat aircraft and the type of weapons that will be used.

“This was 31 minutes before the start of the first American, accurate and accurate aircraft before the start of the period when the main goal was” targeted terrorist “, which was expected to be killed by these American aircraft.” “If this text was received by a person hostile to American interests – or someone is just an unlimited, and with social media access – the Houthis had time to prepare for what was supposed to be a sudden attack on their strongholds. The consequences of American pilots were disastrous.”

Both were Gabbard and Ratcliffe Grilled by Democrats On the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, on the breach of security. Both admitted to the legislators that they were part of the chat, with the refusal that the classified information was shared on the commercial application.

Next to the Director of the FBI, the director of the National Security Agency, General Timothy Hawg and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant Jeffrey Kroos, will appear to answer questions about the global security threats facing the United States at 10 am.

President Trump said on Tuesday that he would “consider” whether administration officials should continue to use the encrypted correspondence application to communicate, but to a large extent to reject The severity of the leakage.

Annual threat assessment

Listening sessions in the House of Representatives and the Senate this week coincide with the issuance of an annual threat assessment of the intelligence community. this year 31 pages report Details of threats posed by illegal drug representatives, such as the drug cardmal in Mexico, Islamic extremists, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

“The cooperation between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea has been growing more quickly in recent years, which enhances threats from each individually with new challenges to power and power worldwide,” says evaluation.

According to the report, Russia’s war in Ukraine has accelerated cooperation between the four countries and Russia has become increasingly dependent on other countries to implement its military targets and alleviate the economic consequences imposed by its opponents.

Despite the heavy costs associated with the invasion of Ukraine, “Russia has proven adaptable and flexible” and its “air forces” more modern and capable of the beginning of the invasion, “says the evaluation.

“The war in Ukraine has granted a wealth of lessons related to fighting against Western weapons and intelligence in a widespread war,” the report says. “This experiment is likely to challenge the US defense planning in the future, including against other opponents who share these lessons learned.”

He added that the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin loses his grip on power “may now be less likely than any time of his rule in the fourth century.”

China is seen as “more able” to threaten American interests abroad. The country poses a “most comprehensive and powerful” military threat to American national security and the “most active and continuing” internet threat to government networks, the private sector and critical infrastructure networks in the United States, according to the report. But the intelligence agencies are evaluating China as “more cautious than Russia, Iran and North Korea about risking its economic and diplomatic image in the world by being very aggressive and destructive.”

The intelligence community expects that Beijing will ask Taiwan in 2025 because it is looking for the unification of the autonomous island.

Meanwhile, Iran will continue to target former and current US officials due to the killing of Qasim Solimani, who led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mr. Trump, however, canceled the security details of many former officials despite the constant threat that Iran poses.

The report also says that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon and that the Supreme Leader Ali Khameneini has not re -authorized the program, “although pressure was probably built on it to do so.”

In North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un stored nuclear warheads increases “and has no intention to negotiate his strategic weapons programs, which he considers a guarantor of the security of the regime and national pride.”