{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-intelligence-committee-demands-independent-intelligence-community", "House Intelligence Committee Demands Independent Intelligence Community Investigation into Signal Chat", "2025-03-31", "2025", "2025-03", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Andr\u00e9 Carson", "C001072", "carson.house.gov", "carson", "https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2014 Today, Ranking Member Jim Himes (CT-04) led all Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, calling for the Intelligence Community to conduct an independent investigation into the Signal group chat in which participants discussed detailed plans for an impending U.S. military attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen. The letter follows the Committee\u2019s Worldwide Threats hearing, during which DNI Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe answered questions about their participation in the chat.\n\n\u201cSince you and other intelligence community leaders testified about the group chat before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last Wednesday, there have been new developments,\u201d the 11 Members wrote. \u201cFirst, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee requested the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense conduct an inquiry into the facts and circumstances of the chat. Second, the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple U.S. officials, reported that a key American ally \u2018provided sensitive intelligence from a human source in Yemen on a key Houthi military operative\u2019 who was targeted in the U.S. military attack; that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz sent texts on the Signal chain following the attack\u2014noting the U.S. had \u2018positive ID\u2019 that the building in which the operative was located had collapsed\u2014that may have been linked to information from that source; and that the U.S. ally complained to the United States that Mr. Waltz\u2019s texts had become public. The Wall Street Journal\u2019s reporting, if accurate, is deeply concerning.\u201d\n\nThe Members continued: \u201cThese developments underscore the need for the intelligence community, under your leadership, to conduct a parallel inquiry into the chat, to complement the congressionally-requested inquiry by the DOD IG and the inquiry that is\u2014according to your testimony\u2014apparently being conducted by the National Security Council.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:15:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://carson.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-intelligence-committee-demands-independent-intelligence-community"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.891340896487236, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}