Not just Signal: 6 times Donald Trump's information security has raised eyebrows
Source: USA Today
Published 5:04 a.m. ET March 29, 2025
President Donald Trump and his administration raised eyebrows about how they handled sensitive national security information long before his top national security advisor added a journalist to a Signal chat. Security experts say sharing detailed plans for attacking the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen with a journalist from the Atlantic is part of a larger problem involving Trump and his security team’s overall handling of sensitive information.
“The sloppiness of their security is pervasive,” Kori Schake, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute,” told USA TODAY. Schake said CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's claims that the time, date, and weapons used were not classified information is “staggering.”
Mike Williams, an international relations professor at Syracuse University who has consulted the Department of Defense, said repeated national security lapses can create a culture of complacency at best or neglect at worse. “Or it creates a culture whereby this becomes permissible and then you have more and more such leakages and then it’s only a matter of time before something gets out there,” Williams said. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Trump's record on information security.
"It is something that is not a big deal other than you want to find out who did it and how they did it because you don’t want it to happen in the future,” Trump said on Tuesday about Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg being added to the Signal chat in which Vice President JD Vance and Cabinet members planned the attack.
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