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Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such."
She concluded with a tweet that read Our nation's Intelligence Community must be focused on our national security mission. Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people, and will not be tolerated."
On March 14, Gabbard wrote on X, formerly Twitter Unfortunately, such leaks have become commonplace with no investigation or accountability. That ends now. We know of and are aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable,
You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist whose made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again. To include the, I don’t know, the hopes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoaxes or suckers and losers hoaxes.”
With respect to the assertions and the allegations that there was strike packages or targeting information or things that relate to DOD, as I pointed out, the Secretary of Defense is the original classification authority for determining whether something is classified or not, and as I’ve understood from media reports, the Secretary of Defense has said the information was not classified.”
CIA Director John Ratcliffe echoed her stance before the same committee I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business,
There was no classified information, as I understand it, they used an app if you want to call it an app. That's an app that a lot of people us."
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday It's hard for me to believe that targets and timing and weapons would not have been classified."
Senator Angus King, a Maine Independent, said Tuesday If this information had gotten out, American lives could have been lost. If the Houthis had this information they could reposition their defensive systems."
Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat said Tuesday A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application,
Russian professional hacking groups are employing the 'linked devices' features to spy on encrypted conversations. The feature allows the chat and voice messenger application to be utilized on multiple devices concurrently."
This is something that would normally be investigated by the F.B.I. and D.O.J.,
said Mary McCord, a longtime senior official for the Justice Department who now teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center Even if a person is in lawful possession of national defense information, putting it on Signal — which is not an approved, secure means of communicating such information — prosecutors could determine it was gross negligence, which is a felony,
If people in authority face no consequences when they break the rules, then they will break the rules. Worse, when people are encouraged to break the rules, they will break them again and again.”
In “Government Gangsters,” ... Mr. Patel wrote Hillary Clinton actually committed a crime through her handling of classified documents and was preemptively exonerated — a two-tiered justice system,
Mr. Patel wrote in his book “Government Gangsters,” published in 2023 It’s not really an F.B.I. thing.”
Speaking at the White House, Mr. Trump appeared to acknowledge the inquiry underway by the National Security Council but quickly added So, look, this journalist, Mr. President, wants the world talking about more hoaxes and this kind of nonsense rather than the freedom that you’re enabling,
There’s a lot of journalists in this city who have made big names for themselves making up lies about this president,
But I’ll tell you what, the world owes President Trump a favor,
Nobody was texting war plans, and that's all I have to say about that,
he told reporters while on an official trip to Hawaii on Monday
