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Pentagon report: Hegseth jeopardized the safety of US troops with information shared on Signal

2025-12-04 09:32:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Pentagon report: Hegseth jeopardized the safety of US troops with information

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have jeopardized the safety of US military troops when he used the messaging app Signal to discuss a planned attack on militants in Yemen.

That's according to a report from the Pentagon's inspector general, expected to be released in the coming days. The inspector general (IG) found that Hegseth acted against Pentagon policy when he used the Signal app, as well as his personal phone, to transmit sensitive information about an airstrike on Houthi fighters before it took place.

The Signal conversation was discovered by the Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief was accidentally added to the group by then-National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The information was extracted from a classified email that was labeled "SECRET//NOFORN," meaning its contents were classified, could harm national security if released, and were not to be seen by any foreign national.

The Trump administration has denied that the information shared in the conversation was classified. In a reaction to the report, Hegseth told “X”: “There is no classified information. Total exoneration. Case closed. The Houthis were bombed into submission.”

The investigation was requested by the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth declined to give an interview to the inspector general's office and instead submitted a written statement.

Hegseth, who leads an army of more than 1 million members, has come under scrutiny recently for overseeing a US raid on a ship carrying suspected drug traffickers. He denies reports that he instructed troops to "kill everyone" of the suspects on the ship and says he was unaware that there were survivors killed in a second airstrike on the target. /CNA





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