Hegseth faces Pentagon investigation over use of Signal
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The Pentagon’s acting inspector general has launched a formal review into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the encrypted Signal app to discuss plans for a military strike against Houthi milita...
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The Pentagon's independent watchdog has announced it has agreed to a request from top senators and is launching a probe into the use of the commercial messaging app Signal by Defense Secretary Pete He...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal group chat with other national security officials to discuss plans for airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen will be investigated, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday.
Pete Hegseth wanted to strike Houthis before Israel could, according to texts leaked to the Atlantic
Vice President J.D. Vance expressed skepticism about the major bombing attack and recommended delaying it — until Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... forward fast. Hegseth, according to the texts, was worried that Israel would hit the Houthis first.
They wanted to talk about hot boys, not hot wars. “Saturday Night Live” took on the Signalgate drama, spoofing the scandal by casting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance as accidentally stumbling into a text chain of high school girls — and sharing government secrets anyway.
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,