Hegseth faces Pentagon investigation over use of Signal
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The scandal has caused a furor on Capitol Hill, with Democrats increasingly calling for Hegseth’s resignation.
From Stars and Stripes
The Pentagon’s inspector general said Thursday it had launched a review into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military plans ahead of U.S. strikes on Yemen in a Signal chat group.
From Wall Street Journal
President Donald Trump's administration is facing a scandal over the accidental leak of a group chat by senior security officials on the strikes, which targeted Yemen's Huthi rebels.
From Wyoming News
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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.
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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.
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,