Trump administration officials continued to defend themselves Wednesday against claims that they mishandled classified information following the public release of a Signal group chat used to plan military strikes in Yemen.
Speaking at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called the incident, in which a journalist was accidentally added to the chat, a “mistake.”
“It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a Signal chat with high-level national security principals having a policy discussion about imminent strikes against the Houthis and the effects of the strike,” Gabbard said. “National security adviser [Mike Waltz] has taken full responsibility for this, and the National Security Council is conducting an in-depth review, along with technical experts, working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat.”
