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Gavin Blackburn

Pentagon watchdog probes if staff deleted Pete Hegseth's Signal chats about Yemen

The Pentagon's watchdog is looking into whether any of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have contained sensitive military information that was shared with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the probe and documents reviewed by The Associated Press (AP).

The Inspector General of the Defence Department’s request focuses on how information about the 15 March US air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen came to be shared on the messaging app.

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