The UK is a pillar of “Five Eyes”, the intelligence-sharing group that also brings the United States together with the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, has never earned a scoop as easily as the moment the war plans dropped onto the screen of his mobile phone.
Goldberg accepted the request, little imagining that within hours he would be added to a group chat on the messaging app that included Vice President J.D. Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and more than a dozen other top officials.
Not only was Goldberg privy to national security details so sensitive that in his piece he redacts several of them in order to protect intelligence officials and their sources, but he also gathered evidence that Vance disagreed with Trump’s decision to approve the military strikes.
He argued that the American public would not understand why US armed forces were attacking a far-off enemy in order to secure merchant shipping that mostly conveys goods to Europe, not the USA.
Hegseth argued in favour of launching the attacks, telling Vance – without a hint of irony – that he was nervous about the possibility of the war plan leaking.
Democrats are rounding on the White House, accusing it of one of the greatest national security breaches in modern American history.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats leader in the House of Representatives, told reporters “this is reckless, irresponsible and dangerous”. He called for an immediate Congressional investigation, arguing Trump’s inner circle “is filled with lackeys and incompetent cronies”.
On Monday night, when asked how Five Eyes members could continue trusting their secrets with the US in the aftermath of Goldberg’s revelations, one former top Republican official told The i Paper flatly that “they shouldn’t”.
It is unknown how many similar conversations about classified operations may have already taken place via insecure technology that is not government approved, and how many of the West’s enemies may have found ways of snooping on them.
Given that some of those threats now appear to come from the participation of Gabbard, Ratcliffe and 16 other top Trump officials in the Signal group chat, Republicans may choose to postpone the hearing rather than allow Democrats on the Committee to focus on the “Keystone Kops” antics of the President’s national security team.
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