March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—SignalGate, as Russiagate before it, appears to have a British hand in sabotaging Trump’s stated commitments to peace. A March 27 article in Britain’s The Independent indicates that the British are targeting Steven Witkoff and Tulsi Gabbard for their intelligence blunder, saying they can’t be trusted in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing—which for decades has put the U.K. in the driver’s seat of Western intelligence sharing. The Independent article concludes: “Gabbard is in charge of the National Intelligence Service that hoovers up signals intelligence for the U.S. and liaises directly with GCHQ in the U.K. Risk-averse Five Eyes intelligence agencies will draw only one conclusion from her evasion of the question. She can’t be trusted.”
The question of how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg—a onetime Israel Defense Forces prison guard—ever got on the highly-restricted Signal chat group is a central, unanswered question. But it is also important to look at the Signal app itself.
One feature which The Independent fails to mention is that Signal itself was recommended for use by the Biden Administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in a guidance published one month before Trump’s inauguration. The Signal application was part of the color revolution toolkit used during operations under Hillary Clinton’s State Department during the Obama administration, promoting its encrypted system for use by on-the-ground activists and agents—particularly during the “Arab Spring.”
