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Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon Business: WSJ

  • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used the Signal app for official Pentagon business across at least a dozen separate chats, including sensitive military discussions.
  • Hegseth preferred Signal over Pentagon secure systems for daily operations, despite spotty phone service requiring aides to relocate to read messages.
  • In March 2025, Hegseth shared detailed plans of a prospective military strike against Yemen's Houthi targets in a Signal group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic's editor-in-chief.
  • Hegseth said he shared only informal, unclassified information and denied sending classified data, stating, "nobody was texting war plans."
  • In April 2025, the Defense Department inspector general began assessing whether Hegseth's use of Signal violated department rules or involved the dissemination of sensitive government material.
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