{"id":1837,"date":"2025-12-05T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/pentagons-signalgate-report-finds-pete-hegseth-violated-military-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:55:09","slug":"pentagons-signalgate-report-finds-pete-hegseth-violated-military-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/pentagons-signalgate-report-finds-pete-hegseth-violated-military-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat<\/a> to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon\u2019s inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins\u2019 eight-month-long investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not comply with DoD policies by \u201cusing a nonapproved commercially available messaging application to send nonpublic DoD information.\u201d <\/p>\n

It also said that he risked potential compromise of \u201csensitive DoD information\u201d as a result, but only recommended a review of classification procedures, and said that another report recommended \u201ccorrective actions\u201d that, if implemented and adhered to, would comply with the department\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n

The 84-page report, available in full here<\/a>, shows that Hegseth himself responded to the investigation with a statement in July that said he\u2019d shared \u201cnonspecific general details\u201d about the strike, and declined interview requests.<\/p>\n

The investigation also had to rely on reporting from the journalist added to the chat, The Atlantic<\/em> editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, as its auto-delete function only made it possible for them to retrieve some of the discussions.<\/p>\n

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We requested that the DoD provide a copy of the Secretary\u2019s communications on Signal on or about
March 15, 2025. The DoD provided a partial copy of messages from the Secretary\u2019s personal cell phone,
including some messages that The Atlantic previously reported, but other messages had auto-deleted because
of chat settings. Therefore, we had to rely in part on the transcript of the chat The Atlantic posted publicly (\u201cHouthi PC Small Group\u201d) for a full record.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a tweet<\/a> posted Wednesday evening, Hegseth claimed the report showed \u201cNo classified information. Total exoneration.\u201d However, Armed Services Committee member Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona told reporters today<\/a> that \u201cIt said he was in violation of some DOD regulations\u2026so whether that\u2019s breaking the law, you got to figure that out.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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