Pentagon head Pete Hegseth shares sensitive Yemen war plans in a second signal chat: Source
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of the attacks coordinated with Iran in Yemen, including his wife, brother and private lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
The revelation of the second signal chat raises more questions about Hergs sharing highly sensitive security details about his unclassified messaging system and his particularly subtle moments, with senior officials ousting the Pentagon from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak investigation.
In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack, similar to those revealed last month by Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which was mistakenly involved President Donald Trump’s top national senior national security official.
People familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity that the second chat included more than a dozen people, created during the confirmation process to discuss administrative issues rather than detailed military plans.
The chat included details about the schedule of the air strikes, the person said.
Images released by the Pentagon show that Hegss’s wife Jennifer, former Fox News producer, attended a sensitive meeting with foreign military peers.
The Trump administration’s national security team continues to deny any confidential information released after the Atlantic published a signal message app chat’s entire transcript that revealed U.S. officials discussing air strikes on Yemen.
Hegseth can be seen sitting behind him at a meeting with his British rival in March.
Hergs’ brother is a Pentagon’s Department of Homeland Security contact.
The Trump administration is actively pursuing leaks, and Heggs enthusiastically embraced the effort at the Pentagon.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House did not immediately respond to a message.
The turbulent moments of Heggs
Democratic lawmakers say Heggs can no longer continue to work.
“We’ve been learning how Pete Hegseth puts life in danger,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in an X post: “But Trump is still too weak.”
Iraq War veteran Senator Tammy Duckworth, who was injured in the fight in 2004, said Hegseth “must resign.”
A Pentagon U.S. official questioned how Heggs kept his job after the latest news.
The latest revelation comes days after Dan Caldwell, one of Hegseth’s leading advisers, was included in the Pentagon after it was identified in a Department of Defense leak investigation.
Although Caldwell is not as famous as other senior Pentagon officials, he played a key role in Hegseth and was appointed as the Pentagon view in the first signal chat.
Caldwell posted on X on Saturday: “We are very disappointed with the way the Department of Defense services ended.” “Pentagon officials’ unfounded attacks outside the door ruined our role.”
After Caldwell left, Darin Selnick, a teenage official who recently became Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff, and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff of the Deputy Secretary of Defense of Steve Feinberg, took administrative leave Friday.
