President Trump is standing by his National Security Advisor following the accidental inclusion of a journalist in a Signal group chat about highly sensitive plans that might involve bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. Trump stated today that no classified information was shared and that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz should not apologize. Waltz, in turn, says he has never contacted the reporter in question.
The Senate Intelligence Committee held its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment Hearing today with the Trump administration’s new intelligence chiefs. For the first time ever, transnational criminal organizations top the list in the Worldwide Threat Assessment from the U.S. intelligence community….