In a chat group that included his wife, brother, and personal attorney, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth provided specifics of a strike on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in March, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters earlier this week.
Hegseth’s use of an unclassified messaging system to share extremely sensitive security details is called into question by the disclosure of a second Signal chat. This comes at a particularly sensitive time for him, as senior officials were removed from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak investigation.
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 chat, which comprised around a dozen people, was set up during his confirm
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