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The Trump administration chat leakage represents the “deep” risk of “unusual communication”, which could have implications in future operations, an old National Intelligence The official said Sunday.
Sue Gordon, former director of National Deputy Director during the President Donald Trump’s The first term reacted to the escape during an appearance in “Face the Nation” of CBS.
“I’m glad the operation has been successful,” said Gordon, referring to US military attacks on Hutis terrorist objectives. “Now we have to deal with the fact that this should not have happened, there is a consequence when it does and cannot be sure that there is no persistent risk that follows it.”
Gordon said that while there have been errors in the past about the protection of a partner’s information, this leak is different due to the Trump administration reaction of “there was nothing to do here.”
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The former director of the National Intelligence Sue Gordon said Sunday that Trump administration officials should never have communicated on military operations in the signal application. (Somodevilla/Getty images)
“I don’t think we should rest on the fact that nothing bad happened this time,” said Gordon. “We do not know if that communication route has been penetrated, so we do not know if the state actors that have many resources are sitting and stalking now knowing that we do important things in (signal).”
The signal, an encrypted messaging application, is now under the focus after it was revealed that the main national security leaders He had been in a group chat arguing plans to attack terrorists in Yemen, which also included the Atlantic editor, Jeffrey Goldberg. The chat was made public by a first -hand account of the group chat published by Goldberg in an article on Monday.
The Trump administration has maintained that no classified information was shared in the chat, doubleing Wednesday that the history of the Atlantic was a “deception” after Goldberg posted specific texts of the chat.
The messages included the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth He outlined that the combat planes were ready to take off and hit the drones were ready for the operation, which were accompanied by time marks.
Removed General Frank McKenzie, former Centcom commander, also appeared in the program on Sunday, saying that although he was “surprised” in the filtration of communications, he believed that the “biggest story” was how the United States “finally began hitting the hutis with force” at a speed “that, frankly, eluded to the previous administration.”
McKenzie said that “he would not remove anything from the table” on how the United States would face the Terrorist group backed by Iranian.
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“I think we have the capacity, in fact, at this time, in the weakened state of Iran, to threaten them very strongly,” said the retired general.
Emma Colton of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
