The Pentagon chief allegedly included details on the strikes in the private chat -- the second time he has been accused of sharing sensitive military information on the commercial messaging app with unauthorized people.
Hegseth is facing increasing criticism, with three ex-staffers penning a statement decrying their dismissals and his own former Pentagon press secretary all but calling for him to be removed.
“Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has now leaked classified military plans TWICE -- this time through a unsecured Signal chat on a personal device to friends and family. He’s a walking national security disaster and needs to resign or be fired,“ said Representative Jim McGovern.
But President Donald Trump has stood by him so far, saying Monday that “he’s doing a great job” and dismissing the reports as “just fake news.”
Last month, The Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor-in-chief was inadvertently included in a Signal chat in which officials including Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz discussed the March 15 Yemen strikes.
The New York Times and CNN then reported Sunday that Hegseth had shared information in a second Signal group chat on the same strikes.
The chat included his wife Jennifer, who is a journalist and former Fox News producer, as well as his brother Phil and lawyer Tim Parlatore, both of whom serve in roles at the Pentagon, the newspaper and the channel said, citing anonymous sources.
Former senior advisors Darin Selnick, Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll hit back on Sunday, saying Pentagon officials had “slandered our character with baseless attacks.”
Hegseth’s former Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot also took aim at him in a scathing opinion piece on Sunday that described “a month of total chaos at the Pentagon.”
“President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer,“ wrote Ullyot.
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