U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly shared detailed military plans for airstrikes in Yemen in private Signal group chats, including one with his wife, brother, and lawyer.
This revelation follows a previous incident where similar sensitive information was accidentally shared with a journalist. The leaks have raised serious concerns about the handling of classified information at the highest levels of the U.S. government. The situation has embarrassed the Trump administration and sparked debate over security protocols.
The Pentagon is now facing scrutiny over how such sensitive details were so widely disseminated.
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Pentagon chief Hegseth shared sensitive Yemen war plans in second Signal chat, source says
In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack similar to those revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.
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