Toward the Sunday report from New York TimesThe Secretary of the Defense of Pete Hegseth shared “detailed information” on the upcoming strikes in Yemen 15. March in a private group chat involving his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
Four people with the knowledge of the conversation said Time The information included F / A-18 Hornets targeting houti rebels in jeme-essentially the same attack the planned Secretary of the Defense shares on a separate signal chat that incorrectly included the editor from Atlantic on the same day.
Newsweek Special for the Defense Department by email for comment on Sunday.
Why is it important
The reported existence of the second signal conversation in which Hegset was allegedly shared by highly sensitive military information is the latest in a series of development that put their management under the supervision.
President Donald Trump Best National Security Officers, including Hegset, discussed earlier about US military plans in Yemen on the signal Chat group included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Details of American military operations should not be carried out in publicly available platforms such as the signal, and a series of security experts said that the Chat group could violate the law on spying.
The officials in the Chat group faced Bipartisan criticism, including a lawsuit from an unpartial lawsuit, which alleged violation of the Federal Law on Records and Administrative Procedure by conducting government operations on the platform that deletes communications.
Hegset’s inner circle
Jennifer Dim Henseth: The Former Secretary’s Former is a former fox fox manufacturer not an employee of the Defense Department. She traveled with her husband abroad and pulled out criticism because she was following him on sensitive meetings with foreign leaders. Rauchet was producer Fox and friendsThey show that Hegseth began a co-hosting in 2017. years. She is the third husband of Hegseth and a couple share a 7-year-old daughter.
Phil Hegseth: The brother of the Secretary of Defense works in the Pentagon as a senior adviser to Hegseth and the links is between the department for the homeland and the Pentagon. Its role involves connecting to agencies such as American coast watch and seeing homeland safety. Phil recently joined his brother on the Pentagon Plane during Indo-Pacific Tour. His previous experience involves the establishment of a company for the production of podcasts, managing digital media on the conservative Hudson Institute and cooperate with brother in concern for America in which he earned $ 108,000 as a media adviser.
Timothy C. Parlator: The Personal Lawyer Hegset was ordered as a naval commander in the judge of the Bar Association as a reservist in the Pentagon Ceremony.
Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images
What to know
Unlike the previously reported signal chat, which created the Mike Waltz Security Advisor, this newly disconnected was reportedly created by Hegseth, reported. She joined his wife Jennifer and a dozen other people from his personal and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as the Minister of Defense, and called the “Defense | Team was ass. Time. Instead, he uses his private phone, not his government to access the signal chat.
Hegseth has initially created a separate signal group as a forum for a routine administrative or scheduling information, two were familiar with chat. Anonymous sources said Time Yes Hegset was not usually used by chat to talk about sensitive military operations and said that he did not involve other officials at the cabin level.
The second person known to Chat said Hegethins’ assists warned a day or two before the Yemen did not discuss the group chat, which are encoded, they do not believe that government channels used to discuss highly sensitive planning and combat operations.
The signal chat was arranged until recently in a dozen Hegset’s top assistants, including Joe Kasper, Hegset’s head of staff and Sean Parnel, Pentagon Chief, Pentagon Chief. The chat also included two senior advisers to Hegseth-Day Caldwell and Darin Selnick. Both were accused of leaking unauthorized information last week and they were fired.
Reuters was 15. April reported that Caldwell was extracted from the Pentagon and placed under the administrative leave for “unauthorized discovery”.
The Pentagon’s Officer later confirmed Newsweek Through the e-mail that Selnick “also set to administrative permission during the investigation.”
Caldwell and Selnick, together with another former superior Pentagon official, declared his innocence on Saturday Saturday, earlier Twitter, responding to the leakage query that led to his releases.
According to politics, Citation of the defense officials, the investigation is focused on leaks relating to other airplanes in the red sea, pausing the collection of intelligence in Ukraine, and the visit to the Pentagon from the billionaire Elon Musk (Doge).
What do people say
In Marta Memo, Joe Kasper, Hegset’s head of staff, mentioned the leak investigation: “Recent unauthorized detection of national security data involving sensitive communications with directors in the Office of the Defense Secretary (OSD) require an immediate and fundamental investigation.”
Sean Parnell, the main spokesperson of the Pentagon, on X last month: “For too long, cases of unauthorized data on national security data have been missing. @SECDEF is dedicated to aggressive guidance for criminal prosecution or harm our national security will not be tolerated. Responsibility returns.”
Former Chief of the Pentagonese Spokesperson John Ullyot wrote an article about the opinion for politics after another report: “The moon of total chaos was in the Pentagon. Since the leakage of sensitive operational plans for mass charging, dysfunction is now the main distraction for the president – which deserves better than its high leadership.”
Pentagon’s Acting Inspector General Steven Steven Stebns announced earlier this month to review the publishing of Hegseth Yemen strike on signal chat: “The aim of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secret Secretary of Defense and other DoD staff complies the Rules and procedures of Dod to use the commercial application for official work.”
Critics on Social Media
Fred Wellman, American Army Battle Veterans and Home About Democracy with FPWELLMAN Podcast on Meidastouch, he wrote on X on Sunday: “This is worse than last. Hegseth has created a signal group with friends and family and shared highly classified striking plans on their personal phone. @SECDEF must leave!”
Mike Nellis, a former senior adviser for the former Vice President Kamal Harris, wrote to X: “Trump needs to shoot Pete Hegseth. He’s a complete clock, and he can’t stop playing national security secrets. What the hell do you mean, you put your wife and brother on the text chain with war plans?”
Representative Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, wrote on x: “Hegset should just tell us how much chat room leaked with confidential information. Let’s just go to the bottom of this, instead of leaking in the next few months.”
Retired by US Army General Barry R. McCaffrey wrote on x: “Stunning security failure from SEC Def. His personal phone secured the terrain to foreign opponents. His wife was not cleared for secret information.”
American sports and political commentator Keith Olbermann wrote on x: “Breaking up: The secretary of the vodka shared the actual struggle plans on the signal with Miss.”
Founder of left Think Cephestical Cistern Policy National Policy Policy Matt Bruenig on X: “HEGSETH Wife is probably just celebrated text back” that’s so cool, nice to have fun “”
Wajahat ali, Columnist and facing Democracy-ish Podcast, he wrote to X: “Good God. Return to Dei. Competent people rental. This is not a game, a magic.”
What happens next?
The General Act of the Pentagon Inspector is reviewing Hegsethovo’s Yemeni discovering a Yemenic initial strike on a signal chat that included Top Trump Aides, but it is unclear whether this review revealed another signal chat.
This review was launched in response to a jointly biparted request from the Senate Armed Service Board.
2025-04-21 01:01:00
