The heads of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) testify before the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency on Wednesday, March 26.
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Por NICOLE WINFIELD
NUEVA YORK (AP) — La orden religiosa jesuita, a la que pertenece el papa Francisco, ha ofrecido un amplio gesto de reparación a unas 20 mujeres que dicen haber sido abusadas sexual, psicológica y espiritualmente por un famoso exartista jesuita y que han esperado justicia durante años por parte del Vaticano.
Un alto funcionario jesuita en Roma, el reverendo Johan Versuchen, dijo el miércoles que había enviado una carta donde detalla la oferta a 20 personas que dicen haber sido abusadas por el reverendo Marko Rupnik. El esloveno es uno de los artistas religiosos más celebrados de la Iglesia Católica, y sus mosaicos decoran iglesias y basílicas de todo el mundo, incluido el Vaticano.
Los jesuitas expulsaron a Rupnik de su orden en 2023 cuando más de dos docenas de mujeres afirmaron haber sido sometidas a abusos sexuales, espirituales o psicológicos por parte del religioso durante 30 años, algunas de ellas, mientras colaboraban con él en obras de arte. Rupnik sigue siendo sacerdote y sus simpatizantes niegan que haya cometido alguna falta.
Las mujeres presentaron las acusaciones en su contra hace años, pero Rupnik se libró del castigo durante mucho tiempo, en parte porque las mujeres no eran menores de edad en el momento del presunto abuso y gracias a su estatus exaltado en la iglesia y en el Vaticano, donde incluso se cuestionó el papel del papa Francisco en el caso.
Con el caso estancado en el Vaticano, Versuchen escribió el martes a las 20 presuntas víctimas lamentando que Rupnik se hubiera negado a participar en un camino de verdad y reparación y que la iglesia institucional se hubiera negado durante años a escuchar sus reclamos o a proporcionar justicia.
Dijo que, ahora, la orden jesuita tenía “confianza en que es posible un proceso de sanación y reconciliación interior, siempre que también haya un camino de verdad y reconocimiento de nuestra parte”, según extractos de la carta citados por Laura Sgro, abogada de algunas de las mujeres.
En un correo electrónico enviado a The Associated Press, Versuchen confirmó que en las cartas se invita a las víctimas a indicar “qué necesitarían ahora y cómo podemos satisfacer esa necesidad”, dijo Versuchen.
Describió el gesto como “una mano extendida” que se ofrece de manera individual, anónima y caso por caso.
“Cualquier vía hacia la reparación dependerá totalmente de la persona invitada. La concreción de eso vendrá después”, dijo, y agregó que los jesuitas también necesitan aprender de las víctimas para que tal abuso no se repita.
A menudo, tales gestos de la Iglesia implican asistencia económica, en forma de asistencia espiritual o psicológica, así como compensación financiera o incluso ayuda para encontrar trabajo.
Sgro agradeció a Versuchen y a los jesuitas por lo que llamó un “gesto claro, fuerte y concreto” de reparación. Pidió al dicasterio del Vaticano para la Doctrina de la Fe, que maneja la investigación de Rupnik, que finalmente lo procese y “restaure la dignidad a las víctimas”.
“Realmente no puede haber más demora; simplemente tiene que hacerse justicia”, dijo.
El escándalo de Rupnik estalló públicamente a finales de 2022, cuando la orden jesuita admitió que el artista había sido excomulgado brevemente en 2020 por haber cometido uno de los crímenes más graves de la Iglesia Católica: usar el confesionario para absolver a una mujer con la que había mantenido relaciones sexuales.
El caso continuó generando problemas para los jesuitas y para Francisco, ya que el Vaticano inicialmente se negó a procesar otras acusaciones de abuso, argumentando que las denuncias eran demasiado antiguas. Debido a la presión por las sospechas de que había protegido a su compañero jesuita, Francisco finalmente renunció al plazo de prescripción para que el Vaticano pudiera abrir un juicio canónico adecuado.
En una entrevista de 2023 con la AP, Francisco negó haber intervenido en el caso más allá de lo procedimental.
Aunque la investigación ha terminado, aún no se convoca un tribunal para analizar el caso.
El jefe del Dicasterio para la Doctrina de la Fe, el Cardenal Víctor Manuel Fernández, dijo a los periodistas la semana pasada que tenía dificultades para confirmar jueces externos para el caso. Éste es altamente sensible, dadas las insinuaciones de favoritismo hacia el amigo del papa, y ha planteado preguntas sobre qué hacer con las docenas de basílicas en todo el mundo que presentan los distintivos mosaicos del artista.
“Hemos hecho una lista (de posibles jueces) y hemos comenzado a hablar con ellos porque hay que encontrar jueces que tengan ciertas características para algo tan mediático”, dijo Fernández.
Hasta la fecha, Rupnik no ha respondido públicamente a las acusaciones y se negó a responder a sus superiores jesuitas durante su investigación. Sus simpatizantes de su estudio de arte, el Centro Aletti, han denunciado lo que califican como un “linchamiento” mediático.
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Moments after the bombshell publication of the leaked text messages in which top officials candidly discussed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen, The White House employed some bizarre spin — in an apparent attempt to downplay or dismiss the messages.
In a post to X, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to claim victory by sharing a screenshot of the headline of The Atlantic’s latest article , “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal.”
“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans,’” Leavitt wrote. “This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
Leavitt appeared to be pointing out a slight difference from the headline of The Atlantic’s original piece on the leak — which referred to “war plans” being discussed, rather than “attack plans.”
But whether they were war plans or attack plans, what is now clear is that those plans were detailed and unquestionably constituted highly sensitive information. In the new article published Wednesday morning, The Atlantic posted the messages sent to editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg from the group text chain on which he’d been included. The messages included detailed information about the precise timing of the planned strikes on the Houthis and the specific targets roughly two hours before the strikes were carried out, and a half hour before the mission had even begun.
Leavitt is scheduled to hold a briefing at 1 p.m. Wednesday, during which this topic is certain to come up.
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has slapped Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe with a scathing assessment, saying they “lied” under oath while denying classified information was shared in the Signal group chat containing a journalist .
The hearing came after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg dropped an article Monday reporting how Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added him to a group chat in which the principals committee – the heads of the top American national security agencies — discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Warner, the top Democrat on the committee, clashed publicly during the hearing with Gabbard and Ratcliffe after their denials that the strike plans outlined in the group chat, in which they were both participants, were classified.
On Wednesday, after repeated denials from those involved in the chat, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House attacks on his character, Goldberg published a follow-up article including more of the chat logs to prove sensitive information was discussed both before and as the attack unfolded.
Warner was on panel at MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday as Goldberg’s follow-up dropped, with The Atlantic editor joining the team on air.
After justifying his decision to publish the chat logs, host Mika Brzezinski turned to Warner: “Senator, do these text messages that are now released by The Atlantic, by Jeffrey’s reporting, answer some of the questions that you couldn’t get answers to yesterday?”
Warner replied:
Well, it sure answers the question that the two witnesses, I believe, lied when they said: ‘Oh, nothing to see here, nothing classified.’
One of the witnesses tried to hedge a little bit later about, well, this may be defense classified, but you would have to be an idiot not to understand what Jeffrey just laid out is at a huge classification level that if it had fallen into enemy hands and the Houthis had been able to realign their offenses, American lives could be lost.
He continued, lambasting the Trump administration for what he said were repeated and similar instances of incompetency:
And the reason why I say it’s a pattern, in the first two weeks of the administration, they inadvertently released the names of 200 new CIA agents. Those individuals, if their identities are known, they can’t be put into the field now. That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of training beyond screwing up those people’s lives.
There’s not a day that goes by that you guys don’t report another one of the DOGE boys in one of classified agencies giving up personal information.
This is a pattern of sloppiness and incompetence that I think reflects this administration’s approach, at least towards sensitive information.
Watch above via MSNBC.
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Texts released by The Atlantic show that Trump Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were BSing, at a minimum, when they testified about the content of the group chat.
The political media world was stunned Monday when Jeffrey Goldberg dropped a blockbuster report that revealed he was (apparently inadvertently) included in a Signal text chain in which the Principals Committee discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen — strikes that shortly came to pass.
Among the Trump administration’s responses has been the claim that the information on the texts was not classified.
That claim was front and center when the Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing Tuesday, with Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Ratcliffe in the hot seat. But Goldberg’s mostly-unredacted release Wednesday morning contradicts their testimony.
In particular, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — one of many Democrats who tried to corner the trio on the issue of classified information — took them through Goldberg’s descriptions of the texts:
KELLY: In the Signal chain that we have been talking about, was there any mention of a target in Yemen?
GABBARD: I don’t remember mention of specific targets.
KELLY: Any generic target?
GABBARD: I believe there was discussion around targets in general.
KELLY: Mr. Ratcliffe?
RATCLIFFE: I think that’s consistent with my recollection. Again, I don’t have access to that.
KELLY: Was there any mention, Ms. Gabbard, of a weapon or weapons system?
GABBARD: I don’t recall specific weapons systems being named.
KELLY: I’m not talking about specific. Any weapon or weapon system?
GABBARD: I don’t recall specific names of systems or weapons being used or named within the time.
KELLY: Well, I’m not asking whether — I don’t want you to tell me what the specific weapon was, but any weapon at all. Mr. Ratcliffe, same question.
RATCLIFFE: I don’t recall.
KELLY: How about anything about timing, Ms. Gabbard?
GABBARD: I don’t recall specific timing.
KELLY: Was there any mention?
GABBARD: I won’t get into the detail of the conversation, but obviously there was a significant amount of planning and internal discussions that had occurred prior to and outside of this Signal chat.
KELLY: Mr. Ratcliffe, you’re nodding your head. Any mention of any military unit whatsoever, Mr. Ratcliffe?
RATCLIFFE: Not that I recall.
KELLY: Ms. Gabbard?
GABBARD: Not that I recall.
But the texts — which Gabbard and Ratcliffe had every opportunity to review before and even during the hearing — contradict them:
“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”
“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”
“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”
“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)”
“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security.
“Godspeed to our Warriors.”
Watch above via CNN .
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