March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Financial Times reported rather gleefully that “‘Signalgate’ will send shockwaves through the U.S. security apparatus and foreign allies.” It’s not just “the sheer amateurism of the Trump White House,” they wrote. The deeper issue is that “the breach will raise disquiet across the U.S. security and military apparatus about the risks of such behavior to personnel. Allies could question what intelligence they are prepared to share with Washington in future.”
Although “in a pre-scheduled Senate intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and CIA director John Ratcliffe both denied that classified material had been shared in the chat,” there’s another issue. “Legal experts have suggested that disclosing operational details on a non-secure medium could violate the U.S. Espionage Act. Since some messages are said to have been set to disappear after one or four weeks, unless they were later forwarded to official government accounts this could also breach federal laws on record retention.”
