The Bureau for #Humanitarian Assistance would absorb the remnants of the #USAID, which has been gutted over the last two months by #MarcoRubio & other members of the #Trump admin.

As for personnel, the memo said, the department needs to move from its “current outdated & disorganized generalist global rotation model to a smarter, strategic, regionally specialized career service framework to maximize expertise.”

#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.

Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?

#Ratcliffe: Yes

Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.

Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?

Ratcliffe: No.

Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.

Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details of the #Signal group chat contents:

“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?

#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)

Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.

#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
…
“Did you know the president’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”

#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)