‘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.
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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.
Is the Signal security lapse part of a larger pattern under President Donald Trump? Experts say yes.
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Sloppy, negligent, incompetent, irresponsible – this is the failed Trump ‘administration,’ its mishandling of sensitive national security information places American service members at risk, along with the rest of the American people.
Trump is unfit to be president.