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Top Trump officials exchanged sensitive national security information about a military operation in an unsecured Signal message group chat, John. Where a reporter was mistakenly added to the thread.
Apparently, that’s where our country’s leaders and policy advisors are sharing sensitive information about ongoing military operations — on a commercially available app.
As the former Chair of the Intelligence Committee, it is hard for me to describe what a colossal f*ck up this is, but the implications of this are deadly serious.
This breach could have put our pilots at risk and could have cost lives, not to mention compromised the success of the mission — which involved going after Houthi targets in Yemen.
The willingness of top Trump officials to message about military operations demonstrates both a kind of dangerous incompetence and arrogance.
They think they’re above the law. They’ve done away with FBI background checks for top people and standard safety measures to keep our intel out of the wrong hands.
Conversations that should happen in the Situation Room shouldn’t be happening on an insecure group chat.
We cannot let them get away with this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should quit or be fired. And the same is true for Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe — top intelligence officials who participated in this fiasco and cannot be trusted to handle classified or sensitive national security information.
What’s more, Steve Witkoff, the President’s envoy to Russia, may have been texting while he was in Russia and could literally have been at the Kremlin at the time. He should be fired for his gross negligence. This is apparently what happens when you put a real estate developer in the role of envoy (or president for that matter).
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John, this level of incompetence is dangerous, and there must be consequences for this massive breach of security from the Trump administration.
More soon,
Adam
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