US Houthi Strike | Sen Bennet Slams CIA Director Ratcliffe During Intel Hearing On Signal Chat Leak Senator Michael Bennet gets into heated exchange with CIA Director John Ratcliffe. “It’s an embarrassment! You need to do better!” the Democratic Senator told Ratcliffe during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing That exchange came as the Trump administration’s top intelligence officials testified before Congress on worldwide threats during an annual hearing against the backdrop of a security breach involving the mistaken leak of attack plans to a journalist.