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WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) got into a shouting match with CIA director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday after asking if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have been drinking before he used the third-party messaging app Signal to share war plans with national security officials ― and accidentally let a journalist into the group chat.

Before being confirmed, Hegseth faced numerous allegations of excessive drinking, sometimes at work.

“To your knowledge, do you know whether Pete Hegseth had been drinking before he leaked classified information?” Gomez asked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, one of several national security leaders testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.