Signal chat group affair: unprecedented security breach will seriously damage US international relations – expert view

By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull

Plans for an attack against an enemy target are classified in America. But the private views of high-ranking officials about allies, communicated within government, must also count as intelligence to be protected.

The recent communication of this category of information over the Signal messaging app has been dismissed by the US president, Donald Trump as a mere “glitch”. It is definitely that. But…

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