Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon on Sunday said that Trump administration officials should never have been communicating about military operations on the Signal app. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
"I don't think we should rest on the fact that nothing bad happened this time," Gordon said. "We don't know whether that communications path has been penetrated, so we don't know whether state actors that have lots of resources are just sitting and lurking now knowing we do important things on [Signal]."
Signal, an encrypted messaging app, is now under the spotlight after it was revealed that top national security leaders had been in a group chat discussing plans to strike terrorists in Yemen, which also included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The chat was made public by a first-hand account of the group chat published by Goldberg in an article Monday.
DEMS HAVE LONG HISTORY OF SUPPORTING ENCRYPTED SIGNAL APP AHEAD OF TRUMP CHAT LEAK
The Trump administration has maintained that no classified information was shared in the chat, doubling down on Wednesday that The Atlantic's story was a "hoax" after Goldberg published specific texts from the chat.
The messages included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth outlining that combat aircraft were set to take off and strike drones were ready for the operation, which were accompanied by timestamps.
Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM commander, also appeared on the program Sunday, saying that while he was "surprised" at the communications leak, he believed the "larger story" was how the U.S. had "finally begun to strike the Houthis hard," at a speed "that, frankly, eluded the previous administration."
McKenzie said he "wouldn't take anything off the table" about how the U.S. would confront the Iranian-backed terror group.
"I think we have the capability — actually, right now, in Iran's weakened state — to threaten them very strongly," the retired general said.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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