Hegseth faces Pentagon investigation over use of Signal
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The scandal has caused a furor on Capitol Hill, with Democrats increasingly calling for Hegseth’s resignation.
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The Pentagon’s inspector general said Thursday it had launched a review into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military plans ahead of U.S. strikes on Yemen in a Signal chat group.
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President Donald Trump's administration is facing a scandal over the accidental leak of a group chat by senior security officials on the strikes, which targeted Yemen's Huthi rebels.
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Phil Hegseth, Pete Hegseth's younger brother, is a Department of Homeland Security liaison to the Defense Department, the Pentagon confirmed to the Associated Press. He's a former public affairs advisor to the Hudson Institute think tank where,
The Pentagon inspector general’s office said Thursday that it will scrutinize disclosures made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth using the unclassified messaging app Signal, as he and other top Trump administration officials coordinated a highly sensitive military operation last month in Yemen,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Panama next week to meet its leaders following recent U.S. allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the critical Panama Canal shipping lane.
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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.
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There is much to like about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s interim national defense strategic guidance document.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.
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It's funny watching Washington types clutch their pearls over something that sounds exactly like the kind of incompetence we've come to expect from them.
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Pete Hegseth Needs to ResignFor his own sake and the sake of the country, Pete Hegseth should resign as Secretary of Defense. “Signalgate” demonstrates that he is fully out of his depth within Trump’s national security team, and it’s time for him to go before he seriously damages national security.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already.
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TAG24 on MSNPete Hegseth says US will ensure "deterrence" across Taiwan Strait, calls China "aggressive and coercive"The US will ensure "robust, ready, and credible deterrence" across the Taiwan Strait, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday.