- Pete Hegseth shared details of the March 15 strike.
- Forward the message to the group chat he created.
- Group chat includes his wife Others.
Washington: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth this New York Times.
AFP Unable to verify independently era‘The report, detailing the second time that Heggs was accused of sharing sensitive military information about a commercial messaging application with unauthorized personnel.
last month, Atlantic The magazine revealed that its editor-in-chief was accidentally included in the signal chat, where officials including Heggs and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz discussed the March 15 strike.
Revelation sparked a turmoil, with the administration of US President Donald Trump facing a scandal of unexpected leaks. The Pentagon Inspector General’s investigation into the leak is underway.
On Sunday, The Times reported that Heggs shared information about the March 15 strike with a second signal group chat.
The information “includes flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets in Housey, Yemen,” the report said.
Unlike the accidental leak, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly included in the group, which was created by Hegseth, the media said. Another chat was initiated by Waltz.
“That included his wife and about a dozen people in his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, eraThe report said that the unnamed source was cited.
Heggs’s wife Jennifer is a journalist and former Fox News Producer. The organization also includes his brothers Phil and Tim Parlatore, both of whom hold roles in the Pentagon.
According to The Times, Paratol also continued to serve as Heggs’s personal lawyer.
The Pentagon did not respond immediately AFP Request a comment.
“Slanderous, unfounded attack”
Trump largely blamed the earlier waltz leak but dismissed calls to fire senior officials and insisted that his alleged attacks were successful on the Yemeni rebels.
Three top Pentagon officials took leave this week over an investigation into unspecified leaks from the Department of Defense.
Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, senior advisers Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll attacked Sunday in a statement saying Pentagon officials “a baseless attack has ruined our roles.”
“At present, we are still not told whether the exact investigation is still underway, whether an active investigation is still being conducted, or even the real investigation of the ‘leak’ beginning begins,” they said in a joint statement posted on social media.
“While this experience is unreasonable, we still support the Trump Vance administration’s mission to make the Pentagon great again and achieve peace through strength.”
