Secretary of the Defense Pete Hegsethth common details of the upcoming military strike against Houthi in a group Yemen per second Signal Chat, who included his own wife and brother, toward New York Times.
The paper says details, including flight schedules for warriors involved, are divided into a group conversation 15. March.
Receivables follow the shock of revelation last month The upcoming strike discussed higher information about administrationIncluding HEGSET, vice president JD Vance and the National Safety Advisor Mike Waltz on the signal, commercial messages above, instead of using high security communication systems that are available to them.
The story came to light because Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief AtlanticHe accidentally added to Chat.
The new reporting claims that Hegeth’s wife Jennifer, a former manufacturer of Fox, included in the second group of signals discussed the Jumen attack, along with his brother Phil.
Jennifer Hegsetth followed his wife on official trips and Phil Hegsetth works for Defense DepartmentBut it was not clear why any of them could be involved in air strike planning.
New York Times It also reports that the Pete Hegethhin is a lawyer, the parliament team, included in a group chat. The paper states four people with knowledge about the conversation for their reporting.
The American official refused to comment on when he approached the newspapers whether Hegseth shared detailed plans of the attack, but he said there was “without guidance of national security.”
“It is true that there is an informal group chat that started before confirming their closest advisors,” the official said Time. “Nothing is classified not discussed that chat.”
Independent contacted the Pentagon to comment.
Hegseth has created a signal group called “Defense | Hiam Huldd” and supposedly publishing in it at about the same time that shared TThe same details are in the signal group created by the waltzPeople are familiar with group chat Time.
The Secretary of the Defense also used its personal phone to access the signal chat, according to Novo.
In the days before the Jumen Assault, he allegedly warned Hegseth not to use the group chat “Defense | Team Hisqu” to discuss any sensitive operating details. It is also “encouraged” to move discussions from your personal device to your government phone. “But Mr Hegseth never made a transition” Time Notes, referring to people familiar with the signal chat.
Chat included Hegethethi’s senior counselors, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick, Toward Timewho have recently shot after charged with the leak of unauthorized information. The couple denied the charges of UA Joint statement Published on social media over the weekend.
Other members of the Chat, next to Hegeth’s wife and brother, “were not officials with any obvious needs to provide real-time information in the details of the operation”, according to the exit.
Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, sitting on the board for the Senate Armed Services, called on Hegeth’s resignation.
“How many times Pete HegsetH needs to leak classified intelligence before Donald Trump and Republicans understand that he is not just af. *** Liar, he is a threat to our national security?” Duckworth wrote in post on X. “Every day she stays in her job is another day, the animals of our troops are threatened by his unique stupidity,” he added a unique stupidity, “he added.” He must bribe in shame. “
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The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer called on the President Donald Trump to fire Hegseth. “Details continue to go out. We continue to learn how Pete Hegseth puts lives in risk”, “Schumer reacted to the post on X.” But Trump is still too weak. “Pete hegsetth must be fired.”
The General Procedure of the Defense Assessment Department is currently investigating the signal chat that accidentally includes Goldberg.
In the letter of Hegseth earlier this month, Steven Stebbins said he would reconsider whether the Secretary of Defense violated each rules in the exchange of classified data.
It is unclear whether Stebbins have already discovered reported second signal chat before Time published his report.
Last monthly reports showed that Hegseth brought his wife to two meetings with foreign military officials.
Wall Street magazine reported Sensitive information was discussed at both meetings, one with officials in the UK and others with Nato Defense ministers, according to several people who were or were present or had knowledge of discussions.
Said his wife was present at the meeting on the 6th March at Pentagon With British Secretary of Defense John Heaful and Admiral Tony Radakin, the head of the UK Armed Forces.