Pentagon to probe 'leak' of Yemen war plan
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The Pentagon's Inspector General's office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified commercial texting application to coordinate on the...
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Outside experts and former defense officials have argued the texts put American troops at higher risk and were almost certainly classified, something Hegseth has denied.
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In the US, daily downloads tripled to more than 60,000. In Yemen, where the app is less popular, downloads increased by five times to more than 1,000 per day, bringing the platform from No. 50 in the iOS social media app rankings to No. 9 in the country today.
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Top Armed Services Republican and Democrat call for independent probe of Hegseth and Signal leakWASHINGTON — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee are requesting an expedited investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leak of information about an imminent U.S. attack on Houthi militants in Yemen.
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the incident, parsing semantics and attacking the journalist who was inadvertently added to the chat.
The fallout continues over a security breach in which high-ranking members of the Trump administration accidentally shared plans about a forthcoming U.S. military attack on Yemen with the top editor of the Atlantic magazine on the Signal messaging app.
What did they think about the national security breach, in which Trump administration officials discussed attack plans in Yemen on a commercial messaging app?
The fallout continues over a security breach in which high-ranking members of the Trump administration accidentally shared plans about a forthcoming U.S. military attack on Yemen with the top editor of the Atlantic magazine on the Signal messaging app.
KNOWN: Just hours before the attack on the Houthis in Yemen began ... group got access to the Signal texts.___KNOWN: Hegseth is cracking down on unauthorized leaks of information inside the ...