Pentagon’s Signalgate Report Finds Pete Hegseth Violated Military Policies

It has been months since a group of Trump management officials put together a Signal group chat to talk classified subject intelligence up of a subject onslaught successful Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now nan Pentagon’s inspector wide has released its study connected nan mess. The results of Steven Stebbins’ eight-month-long investigation recovered that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not comply pinch DoD policies by “using a nonapproved commercially disposable messaging exertion to nonstop nonpublic DoD information.”

It besides said that he risked imaginable discuss of “sensitive DoD information” arsenic a result, but only recommended a reappraisal of classification procedures, and said that different study recommended “corrective actions” that, if implemented and adhered to, would comply pinch nan department’s requirements.

The 84-page report, available successful afloat here, shows that Hegseth himself responded to nan investigation pinch a connection successful July that said he’d shared “nonspecific wide details” astir nan strike, and declined question and reply requests.

The investigation besides had to trust connected reporting from nan journalist added to nan chat, The Atlantic editor successful main Jeffrey Goldberg, arsenic its auto-delete usability only made it imaginable for them to retrieve immoderate of nan discussions.

We requested that nan DoD supply a transcript of nan Secretary’s communications connected Signal connected aliases about
March 15, 2025. The DoD provided a partial transcript of messages from nan Secretary’s individual compartment phone,
including immoderate messages that The Atlantic antecedently reported, but different messages had auto-deleted because
of chat settings. Therefore, we had to trust successful portion connected nan transcript of nan chat The Atlantic posted publically (“Houthi PC Small Group”) for a afloat record.

In a tweet posted Wednesday evening, Hegseth claimed nan study showed “No classified information. Total exoneration.” However, Armed Services Committee personnel Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona told reporters today that “It said he was successful usurpation of immoderate DOD regulations…so whether that’s breaking nan law, you sewage to fig that out.”