Pentagon, Signal and Hegseth
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Hegseth and other senior administration officials have repeatedly denied that he shared classified info in the group chat.
U.S. News & World Report |
The Pentagon's Inspector General's office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified commercial texting application to coordinate the Ma...
Wyoming News |
President Donald Trump's administration is facing a scandal over the accidental leak of a group chat by senior security officials on the strikes, which targeted Yemen's Huthi rebels.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley said he didn't read transcripts of the text messages and "probably won't" but said they weren't classified information.
The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the incident, parsing semantics and attacking the journalist who was inadvertently added to the chat.
The military takes extraordinary measures to keep combat operations secret, cutting off outside communications for service members before launching an attack.
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
Sue Gordon, former principal deputy national intelligence director, said the Trump administration needs to deal with any "persistent risk" to communications following the Signal chat leak.
The stunning news that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic was accidentally included on a Signal chat where Trump defense and intelligence officials including Vice
Attorney General Pam Bondi declined to say whether the Justice Department was investigating national security leaders’ use of Signal to discuss an airstrike, implying such an action may not be
Across Washington, the Signal leak presented a major test early ... handled investigations into the mishandling of classified or sensitive information by both Republican and Democratic ...