A former SAS hero has warned that Britain 'cannot trust' the United States with top secret intelligence after senior Trump administration officials leaked war plans on a messaging app. Chris Ryan, a former 22 SAS Staff Sergeant, said the security blunder by 'moronic amateurs' could put lives at risk and that similar failures are likely during Trump's second term.
Ryan, who famously escaped capture in Iraq during the first Gulf War, told MailOnline: 'Under Trump, the Americans have lost their way, and you can't trust them. When you have got people who have been read in and have access to top secret information, but they're allowed to put all this into a group with people who have no place being there, that's a big concern. It's moronic.'
The leak occurred when US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic magazine, to a Signal group chat where sensitive details of US airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen were shared. The messages included specific weapons systems and timings of strikes before they were carried out.
Colonel Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence officer, said the White House was now run by 'amateurs' who had damaged America's standing as 'leaders of the free world'. He told MailOnline: 'This is embarrassing at the highest possible level. It will take the US a long, long time to recover from this.'
Ryan added that during his decade in the SAS, US operational security had been '100 per cent', but now it had been eroded by 'muppets running around' sharing sensitive military secrets on mobile phones. 'The outcome of this could be catastrophic and will cost someone their life,' he warned.
