Pete Hegseth's Use Of Signal Risked 'Harm' To Personnel, Report Finds
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The report comes as the defense secretary is engulfed in a controversy over a “double tap” strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering U.S. military personnel when he used the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss real-time war plans, a report by the Pentagon’s acting inspector general released Thursday has found.
The inquiry examined Hegseth’s use of the app, rather than secure government channels, to discuss detailed information about a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen, in what became known as Signalgate.
The massive security breach was revealed when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published a March 24 story detailing how he had been added to the Signal chat that also involved 18 high-ranking officials, including Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz.
The group chat went into detail about times, types of aircraft and targets.
The internal Pentagon probe found that “using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.”
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