Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took airstrike information from secure communications channel used by US Central Command to share on Signal chats with his wife, brother and several others, raising new questions around whether the Pentagon head leaked classified information over an open and unsecured network.
Launch times and bomb drop times of US warplanes that were about to strike Houthi targets in Yemen – details that multiple officials have said is highly classified – were taken from secure US Central Command communications, NBC News first reported. A person familiar with the second chat confirmed this to The Associated Press.
