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The review will also look at other defense officials' use of the publicly available encrypted app, which is not able to handle classified material and is not part of the Defense Department’s secure c...
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...
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Senior Trump administration officials have been accused of using the third-party app to discuss highly sensitive national security information.
The Pentagon’s independent watchdog launched a probe Thursday into top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration who discussed a military strike using the commercial messaging app Signal. Signalgate has roiled the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth since news broke on March 24 that The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a group chat discussing an attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
The handling of private military discussions among top officials has triggered US security concerns, including from GOP lawmakers.
Despite misleading YouTube videos, U.S. President Donald Trump's defense secretary has never been a guest on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
The Pentagon’s official watchdog revealed Thursday that it is conducting an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s role in Signalgate. The full exchange of the encrypted
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Mediaite on MSNDoD Inspector General Launches Probe Into Pete Hegseth’s Use of Signal — Defying White House Statement That Leaked Chat Case is ‘Closed’The acting inspector general for the Pentagon announced an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the signal app to discuss potentially classified information with other members of the Trump cabinet last month.
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general will review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal app to coordinate strike plans against Houthi militants, raising security and records concerns.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already. In a new memo,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has mandated that physical fitness tests for military combat roles be “sex-neutral,” bringing to an end lower standards for some female troops. In an order announced Monday,