Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies are set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday to discuss global security threats facing the nation.
The hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will feature testimony from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.
The testimony follows revelations that top Trump officials inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, in a Signal group chat discussing highly sensitive U.S. plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. According to Goldberg, accounts appearing to be Gabbard and Ratcliffe participated in the thread, which was initiated by President Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz. Ratcliffe allegedly shared information “that might be interpreted as related to actual and current intelligence operations,” Goldberg wrote.
The National Security Council acknowledged Monday in a statement to CBS News that the message thread “appears to be authentic.”
Trump downplayed the incident, saying he remains confident in his team. “The only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one,” he said. While the annual hearing is expected to focus on security threats from China, Russia, and Iran, intelligence chiefs are likely to face scrutiny over the breach.
The intelligence officials are also scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. The hearings coincide with the release of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s annual threat assessment, which warns of “an increasingly fragile global order” strained by great power competition, regional conflicts, and transnational challenges.
