{"id":37419,"date":"2025-03-30T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/trump-admins-signal-leak-shows-profound-risk-of-uncontrolled-communications-former-intelligence-official\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:41:15","slug":"trump-admins-signal-leak-shows-profound-risk-of-uncontrolled-communications-former-intelligence-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/trump-admins-signal-leak-shows-profound-risk-of-uncontrolled-communications-former-intelligence-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin\u2019s Signal leak shows \u2018profound\u2019 risk of uncontrolled communications: former intelligence official"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration\u2019s Signal chat leak represents the “profound” risk of “uncontrolled communication,” which could have implications on future operations, a former national intelligence<\/a> official said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy national intelligence director during President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> first term, reacted to the leak during an appearance on CBS\u2019 “Face the Nation.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m glad the operation was successful,” Gordon said, referring to the U.S. military strikes on Houthi terrorist targets. “Now we need to deal with the fact that this should not have happened, there is consequence when it does and you can\u2019t be sure that there\u2019s no persistent risk that follows it.”<\/p>\n

Gordon said that while there have been errors in the past concerning the protection of a partner\u2019s information, this leak is different due to the Trump administration\u2019s reaction of “there was nothing to see here.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP ADMIN’S \u2018SLOPPY\u2019 SIGNAL LEAK PUT DEMOCRATS BACK ON OFFENSE, SEN WARNER SAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I don’t think we should rest on the fact that nothing bad happened this time,” Gordon said. “We don’t know whether that communications path has been penetrated, so we don’t know whether state actors that have lots of resources are just sitting and lurking now knowing we do important things on [Signal].”<\/p>\n

Signal, an encrypted messaging app, is now under the spotlight after it was revealed that top national security leaders<\/a> had been in a group chat discussing plans to strike terrorists in Yemen, which also included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The chat was made public by a first-hand account of the group chat published by Goldberg in an article Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DEMS HAVE LONG HISTORY OF SUPPORTING ENCRYPTED SIGNAL APP AHEAD OF TRUMP CHAT LEAK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u00a0has maintained that no classified information was shared in the chat, doubling down on Wednesday that The Atlantic’s story was a “hoax” after Goldberg published specific texts from the chat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The messages included Secretary of Defense\u00a0Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u00a0outlining that combat aircraft were set to take off and strike drones were ready for the operation, which were accompanied by timestamps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM commander, also appeared on the program Sunday, saying that while he was “surprised” at the communications leak, he believed the “larger story” was how the U.S. had “finally begun to strike the Houthis hard,” at a speed “that, frankly, eluded the previous administration.”<\/p>\n

McKenzie said he “wouldn’t take anything off the table” about how the U.S. would confront the Iranian-backed terror group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I think we have the capability \u2014 actually, right now, in Iran’s weakened state \u2014 to threaten them very strongly,” the retired general said.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Emma Colton contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration\u2019s Signal chat leak represents the “profound” risk of “uncontrolled communication,” which could have implications on future operations, a former national intelligence official said Sunday. Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy national intelligence director during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term, reacted to the leak during an appearance on CBS\u2019 “Face the Nation.” “I\u2019m … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}