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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe both said in sworn testimony to the Senate on Tuesday that there was no classified information or material shared on the group chat created by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to coordinate on military strikes against the Houthis.

Gabbard testified, “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat,” while Ratcliffe said, “My communications, to be clear, in the signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”

Gabbard also said: “I can attest to the fact that there were not classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group at any time.”

The sworn statements undercut what Democrats and Trump critics are trying to claim — that Trump national security officials recklessly shared classified information on a group chat that the editor-in-chief from the anti-Trump magazine The Atlantic was accidentally added to.