If he's willing to sell the information to France, France would rightly be concerned that he'd be willing to also sell the information to countries France isn't

If he's willing to sell the information to France, France would rightly be concerned that he'd be willing to also sell the information to countries France isn't friendly with. Even if France didn't care about the information being shared elsewhere, they would still likely care about potentially breaching the classified information treaty they signed with the USA back in 1977[1]. When France received the information, they may have assumed it was a test from the USA to see if France was still upholding their treaty obligations to report unauthorised distribution of US classified information? [1] https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201114/volume-1114-I-17238-English.pdf https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201114/v...