Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed sensitive operational information about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen using the encrypted messaging app Signal, raising concerns that he may have put American personnel and missions at risk, according to a classified Pentagon inspector general report described to CNN by four sources familiar with its findings.
Messages sent from Hegseth's Signal account in March included real-time strike timelines, with one noting: "this is when the first bombs will drop." The communication involved a group chat of senior Trump administration officials. A journalist — Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic — was added inadvertently to that conversation by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, according to reports from earlier this year.
