Signal scandal fuels growing distrust from allies

by Laura Kelly - 03/29/25 6:00 AM ET

The Trump administration’s sharing of sensitive military information on Signal has shocked allies, while further eroding trans-Atlantic trust thanks to group chat messages from top U.S. officials expressing contempt toward Europe’s “freeloading” on security.

“I think every allied intelligence agency that read that article is probably having their own internal panic attack about what this implies,” Craig Kafura, the director of public opinion and foreign policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said of the bombshell report in The Atlantic earlier this week ...

“I think because this is such a public scandal, such a public lapse of judgment in so many ways, it’s going to continue to push public attitudes in — especially Europe given the contents of those messages — a more negative direction towards the United States,” Kafura said ...

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5220396-trump-administration-signal-allies/