The New York Times has a bombshell report about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It claims that not only did he participate in the Signal chat with plans to bomb Yemen, he had a separate Signal group where he shared those details with “his wife, brother and personal lawyer” and “about a dozen other people”
The report is “according to four people with knowledge of the chat” but The Guardian claims to have also “independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.”
The chat reportedly contained flight schedules for the aircraft that would strike the Houthis, the same information that was accidentally shared with The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg. Two senior advisers in the group reportedly included Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick. Both men were put on leave last week after being accused of leaking unauthorized information.
Would he do this? His lawyer and wife, a former Fox News producer, should know better than to have this on their phones. It would seem that all involved would know better so is this true or is there a story behind the story? For instance, he has been against strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Could this be related?
