Defense Minister Pete Hegseth speaks on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC (photo of Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) while confirming the Senate dispute committee on the Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025)
Washington – The Department of Defense’s office of the General Inspector announced on Thursday that it opened a investigation of the highly criticized apply of Signal Messaging app by Secretary Pete Hegseth to communicate about plans for the bombing of Yemen.
The evaluation results from a letter that the chairman and a member of the US Senate -dispute -Service Marite, the Republican Roger Wicker from Mississippi and the Democrat Jack Reed from Rhode Island, last week. Ask the surveillance agency to look into the matter.
General Inspector of the incumbent Ministry of Defense Steven A. Stebbins wrote in a memo Announcement of the investigation that the General Act of 1978 from 1978 “has access to personnel and materials, while we find that we are necessary to execute our supervision in good time”.
The purpose of the evaluation, he wrote, is to determine to what extent the Defense Minister and other DOD employees have complied with the DOD guidelines and procedures for the apply of commercial messaging application for official business. In addition, we will check compliance with the requirements of the classification and the retention of retention. “
The examination takes place in Washington, DC and in the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida.
Causes regarding the apply of signal, an encrypted messaging app in the trade, began after the Atlantic published an article The detailing, like his editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat exchange of messages about national security plans. The resulting controversy was referred to as “signal gate”.
Vice President JD Vance, Hegseth, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard, CIA director John Ratcliffe, the national security consultant Michael Waltz and others were all in the group.
They discussed plans for US troops to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen, which has expressed significant concerns about the communication of the high -ranking Trump administrators and dealing with classified information.
