'The Two Witnesses Lied': Senator Says Leaked Atlantic Texts at 'Huge Classification Level'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 26th, 2025, 9:51 am


Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has slapped Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe with a scathing assessment, saying they “lied” under oath while denying classified information was shared in the Signal group chat containing a journalist.

The hearing came after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg dropped an article Monday reporting how Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added him to a group chat in which the principals committee – the heads of the top American national security agencies — discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen. Warner, the top Democrat on the committee, clashed publicly during the hearing with Gabbard and Ratcliffe after their denials that the strike plans outlined in the group chat, in which they were both participants, were classified.

On Wednesday, after repeated denials from those involved in the chat, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House attacks on his character, Goldberg published a follow-up article including more of the chat logs to prove sensitive information was discussed both before and as the attack unfolded. Warner was on panel at MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday as Goldberg’s follow-up dropped, with The Atlantic editor joining the team on air.

After justifying his decision to publish the chat logs, host Mika Brzezinski turned to Warner: “Senator, do these text messages that are now released by The Atlantic, by Jeffrey’s reporting, answer some of the questions that you couldn’t get answers to yesterday?” Warner replied:

Well, it sure answers the question that the two witnesses, I believe, lied when they said: ‘Oh, nothing to see here, nothing classified.’

One of the witnesses tried to hedge a little bit later about, well, this may be defense classified, but you would have to be an idiot not to understand what Jeffrey just laid out is at a huge classification level that if it had fallen into enemy hands and the Houthis had been able to realign their offenses, American lives could be lost.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-two-witnesses-lied-senator-says-leaked-atlantic-texts-at-huge-classification-level/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Lying under oath to US senate.

Will anything happen?

[Walleye]

4. I guess what will happen is, they will keep lying.

[Irish_Dem]

5. They will keep lying, and nothing will happen to them.

[rubbersole]

11. But, but Pam Bondi is on it!

(When typing 'Bondi' auto-correct came up 'Blondie'. Perfect.)

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yep. Bleached blonde Bondi.

[Hieronymus Phact]

39. "Payoffs" Pamela

[Irish_Dem]

44. They are all scammers and grifters.

[Du916]

35. But, Hillary's emails

:-0

[Mysterian]

10. When patriots retake the government

the piece of shit will be charged, convicted and punished.

[maxsolomon]

14. Pull the other one

[Mysterian]

15. Such a cogent reply.

Bend over and take it from them, then.

[Skittles]

37. Dubya and Cheney started a WAR based on LIES

do you remember how they were held accountable? Well, NEITHER DO I.

[Skittles]

36. "we need to look forward"

yeah, I remember

[Norrrm]

2. If an Army private leaked this information...

[underpants]

3. I have this taped at home. Get 'em Mark!

[pandr32]

6. Keep the pressure up!

We must not relent.

[mwb970]

7. This will be the pattern as long as this clown show goes on.

[neohippie]

8. What's being left out of the scandal is another scandal

The Whitehouse has authorized the use of the Signal app for their comms, but using Signal would violate the preservation of Federal records. As well as the fact that the NSA put out a bulletin in February warning that the Signal app had vulnerabilities that could be exploited and should not be used to conduct government business

So the leaders of all of these agencies are not in compliance with the law by using this platform and have ignored NSA recommendations to not use that app

[IbogaProject]

20. The military has a contract for Wickr

It is an enterprise secure messaging tech that can comply with record retention and fixed contact lists. There was zero need for this to be on Signal.

https://wickr.com/ram/

[PSPS]

22. "There was zero need for this to be on Signal."

Oh, yes there was. It's their back channel to avoid there being any traces of it for future prosecution.

[colorado_ufo]

27. Possibly with intention to share?

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. The TrumpenFuhrer cabinet is a radioactive clown car full of morons.

[dchill]

12. How are they supposed to work for PRESIDENT Trump...

...if they're not given carte blanche to lie under oath? It just goes with the territory.

[Skittles]

25. EXACTLY

they LIE because they know nothing will happen to them and MAGAts will believe them despite all evidence to the contrary

[Mrsfiddlegirl]

16. Source?

The information appears to be a copy and paste job. What was the original source document? Was it classified?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. The original The Atlantic article link

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

One of the screenshots -



Another -

[louis-t]

31. Mike Waltz asking them for their best

People Of Color (POC) for the job?

[Harker]

40. I'll go with "point of contact."

[louis-t]

41. It was too funny to pass up.

[Harker]

42. It was my first thought!

[Skittles]

26. of course it was classified

if repukes say it wasn't classified then WE KNOW IT WAS

[Karasu]

17. Of course they did. That's what they do. It's the whole fucking reason they have their jobs.

[Canada Kid]

18. Lies my president told me...

They are only following orders... where did I here this before?? Lying comes easy...and the more you do it, the easier it becomes. The raw serious truth is that the American people are facing a long hard cold four years of cheating, deception, backdoor dealings, con-jobs, theft, extortion, threats, etc. This reads like a mafia novel, but in this case, there are no repercussions. Amazing how only ONE MAN can throw the whole world into disarray, and no one can seem to stop him! His minions follow him like he is the second coming!

[Evolve Dammit]

21. "Under Oath" means nothing to them. At all.

[PSPS]

24. Same as their supreme court nominees.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. confirmed justices

[robbob]

23. Am I the only one who's noticed (or is commenting):

This is the exact same tact tRump took when he stole all those classified documents and moved them to Florida; he said the documents weren’t classified because he magically declared that they weren’t. Same thing here, they are running around claiming that the signal meeting contained nothing classified because THEY have the magical ability to decide if something is or is not classified. The actual content of what was discussed is apparently irrelevant; it’s only “classified” is they say so.

“1984” came a bit late, but here we are. Reality is whatever the party says it is.

[ReRe]

29. You said that right, robbob! n/t

[ReRe]

28. Question!

Did these dim wits not get a class on National Security before they were sworn in?
Have all their phones and all the phones of those on their contact lists not been confiscated and destroyed into ashes yet?
Did anyone catch Malcolm Nance 30 minute lecture today? Here is the link to the OP. Scroll to reply#28:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100220178082

Sit still, concentrate and listen. Malcolm explains why what they did was so wrong.
And if you haven't read Goldberg's Atlantic article yet, go read it next! (link located above in this thread.)

[markodochartaigh]

30. The link didn't work for me.

But here is Malcolm Nance's program today:

?si=wbpe8BJaOALOUn89

[ReRe]

32. I'm so sorry markodochartaigh & everyone

Thank you for correcting me!!!

[Shipwack]

38. Oh oh... sounds like it's time for a sternly worded letter!

But that would erode comity in the Senate...

[Martin68]

43. Do these a-holes know how stupid they look, making up bogus intelligence classifications like "huge".