Pete Hegseth

Pentagon To Probe Trump Aide’s Use Of Signal App For Yemen Chat Leak Case

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Washington: The Acting Inspector General (IG) of the US Department of Defence (Pentagon) will investigate Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other national security officials to discuss military actions against the Houthis in Yemen last month, according to a letter from the IG’s office on Thursday, CNN reported. … Read more

Pentagon Watchdog To Probe US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth Over Signal Row

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Washington: The Pentagon inspector general’s office will investigate Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss air strikes on Yemen, a memo released Thursday said. 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 … Read more

US Democrats Move To Force House Vote On Signal Chat Leak

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Washington: Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives sought on Wednesday to force the Trump administration to hand over records related to the disclosure of highly sensitive attack plans that were shared over a commercial messaging app, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. The lawmakers filed a resolution that – if passed by … Read more

Pentagon Chief Raps The Atlantic Over “Leaked” Chat

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New Delhi: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth criticised The Atlantic and its editor Jeff Goldberg, a day after it published the transcript of messages accidentally shared in a chat group of senior US officials on Signal, a commercially available messaging app. Mr Hegseth wrote that the “war plan” included “No names. No targets. No locations. No … Read more

“Consequences For US Pilots Could’ve Been Catastrophic”: Yemen Chats Revealed

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Following denials by US President Donald Trump, the White House and several top officials that no classified information was shared in the messaging group discussing plans of an attack on the Houthis in Yemen on March 15, The Atlantic has shared the full text of the chats, including screenshots, highlighting that it had received very … Read more

Trump Administration Tackles Fallout Of Stunning Yemen Chat Breach

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US intelligence sharing could be impacted by a stunning security breach that saw a journalist inadvertently added to a chat group of top Trump officials discussing military plans, a Democratic senator warned Tuesday. The United States and allies around the world share intelligence that helps keep Americans safe, Mark Warner said at a Senate Intelligence … Read more

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