@pbsnews: Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., gave an opening statement Tuesday in a hearing on worldwide threats, a day after the revelation that senior Trump administration officials discussed sensitive U.S. military attack plans in a Signal app group chat and inadvertently included a journalist. Warner, the ranking chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the incident was a huge breach of security protocol and it was "mind boggling" that nobody in the group checked to see who else was included." I think this is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information," Warner said. "That this is not a one-off or a first-time error." The text chain, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen, also included Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who were scheduled to testify in the hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. They will be joined by FBI Director Kash Patel, NSA Director Timothy Haugh and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffrey Kruse. In the time since the group chat was reported, national security experts and lawmakers have expressed concern about the major lapse in security. When asked by reporters about the communications around the plans late Monday, Hegseth said “nobody was texting war plans." #signal #war #yemen #hegseth #gabbard #vance #trump #news #pbs #pbsnews #nationalsecurity