04/21/2025

Hegseth under Fire as New Allegations Involving Signal App Come to Light

The defense secretary is accused of sharing pre-operational details in Signal again

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his embattled, shrinking coterie of senior advisers faced new allegations of malfeasance on Sunday, with a report alleging that Hegseth shared sensitive, advance information about a bombing campaign in Yemen with a group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

The operational details were transmitted March 15 through Signal, marking at least the second usage of the commercial messaging application to share sensitive information about forthcoming airstrikes, The New York Times reported.

It follows a report by The Atlantic magazine last month that detailed how senior Trump appointees, including Vice President JD Vance, White House national security adviser Michael Waltz and Hegseth had deliberated about the same strikes on Signal — an encrypted, but unclassified network — after Waltz accidentally included the editor in chief of the magazine in the private group. Hegseth shared operational details there, too.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.