India, March 25 -- Tulsi Gabbard appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a public hearing on international threats to the United States on Tuesday.

Gabbard, the National Intelligence Director, refused to respond to the hearing's apparent question, which was about an alleged group chat that leaked the US' war plans in Yemen.

Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic claimed in a bombshell story that Gabbard was also an integral part of a covert group of US officials that conversed about launching an attack on Houthis. According to Goldberg, he was inadvertently added to the chat group about forthcoming military strikes in Yemen.

When Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Sen. Mark Warner asked Gabbard if she was part of the chat...