Washington – the most significant intelligence officials of Trump’s administration emphasized the threat to the Congress, which said that international criminal gangs, drug cartels and human smuggling, testifying at the trial on Tuesday, which developed against Safety infringement covering the incorrect leakage of attack plans for a journalist.
Annual interrogation about global threats to the Senate Intelligence Committee presented the reorientation of the priorities of the up-to-date administration. This happens when President Donald Trump opened a up-to-date communication line with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and focused the attention of national security closer to the house on counteracting brutal crime, which officials connect with cross -border drug trafficking.
“Criminal groups drive a lot of unrest and lawlessness in the Western hemisphere,” said Tulsi Gabbard, national intelligence director. On a long list of national security challenges, she cited the need to combat cartels, which, as she said, “engage in a wide range of illegal actions, from drug trafficking to money laundering after smuggling illegal immigrants and human trafficking.”
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Different pages treated various problems priority
The trial took place when officials from many presidential administrations describe the increasingly complicated blush of threats.
In the Committee’s room, this developed in a divided manner: Republican Senators approached the previously shortened topic, drilling China and Fentanyl scourgeWhile Democrat, after the Democrat, criticized acute criticism over a violation of security, they called reckless and threatening.
“If this information appeared, American life could be lost”, senator Mark Warner from Virginia, the highest democrat in the intelligence committee about the revealed signal messages. Added a democratic senator Ron Promote from Oregon: “I am of the opinion that there should be resignation.” “Embarrassment,” said Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado, who shouted the director of CIA John Ratcliffe when he demanded an answer.
Gabbard and other officials noticed long -term fears of the US government, including international terrorism and threat, which the countries, including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, states.
China, for example, has invested in hidden aircraft, hypersonic weapons and nuclear weapons and want to designate the United States when it comes to artificial intelligence, while Russia remains a “powerful competitor” and still maintains a immense nuclear arsenal.
“The direction of the FBI is to serve all people with any terrorist bond, regardless of whether it is ISIS or another foreign terrorist organization,” said Kash Patel, director of the FBI. “And now, to include new cartel markings, in the south and elsewhere.”
But raising international drug trafficking as a threat to the highest level was a significant turn. Over the past four years, the US government has been more likely to be concerned about sophisticated Chinese spy plotsIN Ransomware software attacks that hurt hospitals AND international and home plots of terrorism.
The listening took place during the eruption over text messages
Tuesday’s interrogation took place a day after it reported that several of the best national security officials in republican administration, including Ratcliffe, Gabbard and defense secretary Pete HegeSeth, SMS -SMSH Attack Plans for Military strikes in Yemen For group chat in a unthreatening application for sending a message, which included the editor -in -chief to the Atlantic.
Text chain “contained operational details of the upcoming strikes for Iran Houth-plals in Yemen, In this information about the goals, the weapon that the US would arrange, and sequencing of the attack, “said journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. The strikes began two hours after Goldberg received details.
“Terrified” with a leakage of what is historically strictly guarded information, the highest democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said that he would demand a response to a separate interrogation on Wednesday with his panel.
Two days of interrogation also appear against the background of a completely different approach to Russia After years of Biden administration sanctions regarding the war against Ukraine.
Last week, the Russian president Vladimir Putin He agreed during Long connection With President Donald Trump, immediately stopping before energy infrastructure in what the White House described as the first step in “Movement to the Room”.
