U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth communicated specifics of a March strike on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a chat group with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The revelations of a second Signal chat raise more questions about Hegseth’s use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details, and they come at a particularly sensitive time for him, with senior officials removed from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak probe.
In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack, which were similar to those revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally included in a separate chat on the Signal app, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials.
The individual familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated that the second conversation, which comprised around a dozen people, was set up during his confirmation process to discuss administrative concerns rather than actual military preparation.
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