US Defense Secretary shared sensitive information in second Signal chat

The United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseeth, shared information about the next US air attacks. UU. In Yemen in a private signal chat group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times Reported on Sunday, April 20.

Last month, The Atlantic The magazine revealed that its editor in chief was included inadvertently in a signal chat in which the officials, including Hegseth and the national security advisor, Mike Waltz, discussed the strikes, which tok place on March 15.

The revelation caused a Upraar, with the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, facing a scandal on the accidental escape. The probe of an inspector general of the Pentagon about that leak is ongoing.

On Sunday, the Times He informed that Hegseeth had shared information about March 15. The shared information “included flight schedules for Hornets F/A-18 aimed at the hutis in Yemen,” said the newspaper.

The departure said that, unlike the accidental filtration where journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was included by mistake in the group, this group chat was created by Hegseeth. The other chat was started by Waltz. “He included his wife and on a boxes of other people from his personal and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as Secretary of Defense,” “El” Times He informed, citing unidentified sources.

Hegseeth’s wife, Jennifer, is a journalist and former Fox News producer. The group also included its brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who serve in roles in the Pentagon. Parlatore also continues to serve as Hegseeth’s personal lawyer, the Times Reported.

‘Excessive’

Trump greatly set the fault of the previous filtration in Waltz, but has ruled out the calls to fire the senior officials and insisted on INTAAD about what he called the success of the raids in the Yemenis rebels. This week, three senior Pentagon officials were licensed waiting for investigations on leaks not specified in the Department of Defense.

The Deputy Director of Cabinet Darin Selnick, the main advisor Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll responded on Sunday, launching a statement saying that the Pentagon officials had “slandered our character with attacks without foundation.” “At this time, we have not yet counted for what we investigated exactly, if there is still an active investigation, or if there was only a real investigation of ‘leaks’ to begin,” they said in a joint statement published on social networks.

“While this experience has been excessive, we continue to support the mission of the Trump-Vance administration to make the Pentagon great again and achieve peace through force.”