Democrats put pressure on the Trump administration, President Counter-attack-Liberation

Donald Trump’s close guard on the grill. The lieutenants of the American president were interviewed this Tuesday, March 25 by Democratic senators before the Senate Commission on Intelligence, the day after the shattering revelations of the journalist of The Atlantic telling to have been invited by mistake to a discussion on military plans With senior officials of the Trump administration.

«  »Director Gabbard, you are the security manager who sets up the access instructions to classified information. Have you contacted the Minister of Defense or others after sharing these specific military plans to say: « We should do so (in a secure device)  », Asked Virginie Mark Warner’s senator to the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. «  »There was no shared classified information», She replied, however refusing to‘ »Entering details » Or even confirm your presence in this discussion loop.

The Democrat then castigated a lack of prudence of the people present in the loop on signal messaging and affirmed that if a military or intelligence officer « Had this kind of behavior, he would be dismissed ». Before adding : « This is one more example of the negligent, reckless, incompetent attitude, particularly with regard to classified information » of the Trump administration.

Mark Warner also worried about the possibility that the case has a harmful impact on cooperation with allied countries. “These relationships are not registered in marble, they are not governed by a law. (Agreements) like the Five Eyes are based on confidence, built for decades« Added the senator. The « Five Eyes » are an information sharing alliance between the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. For Mark Warner, following this security flaw, « This confidence is now broken overnight ».

The elected democrat also denounced the remarks made in this loop Who « Hold Europe in the mud ». According to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, an account on behalf of JD Vance, the US vice-president, argued against the strikes on Houthis because they would benefit Europe more than in the United States.

Hearing at the same time as Tulsi Gabbard, the CIA boss, John Ratcliffe, admitted to having participated in this loop of messages. However, he defended a USAGe « authorized and legal » According to him of this private application for these exchanges between the vice-president, JD Vance, the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth and the head of diplomacy, Marco Rubioamong others.

For his part, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden called for the resignation of the National Security Advisor of the White House, Mike Waltz, and the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth. The first would have been the source of the journalist’s accidental addition, while the second would have shared the strike plans upstream on Houthi.

Faced with an uproar caused by the publication of the article The Atlanticthe presidential camp tried to minimize the facts. In an interview given by phone to the NBC channel, Donald Trump said it was the « Only glitch in two months, and in the end without gravity ». He added that Mike Waltz had « learned a lesson  » and that he « Has best ». President Trump also hammered that his national security advisor did not have to apologize. The republican billionaire then decided to attack. According to him, the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic is nothing more than « twisted », assuring that « Everyone doesn’t care » From what this prestigious magazine publishes.

For its part, the White House press service published a statement denounced « A coordinated attempt to divert attention from success»» Recent American strikes against Yemen Houthis. For Steven Cheung, director of communication for the White House, “Anti-Trump forces try to instrumentalize harmless acts and turn them into false scandal (…). Do not let the enemies of America get away with these lies ”, he wrote on X.

The founder of Signal, the messaging in question, did not deprive himself to praise his product and the confidentiality which he confers, usually. « There are many good reasons to be on a signal, A joked Moxie Marlinspike. One of them is now the possibility for the vice-president of the United States to include you randomly in a group discussion on the coordination of sensitive military operations ”.