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Pentagon Watchdog To Probe Defense Chief Over Signal Chat Row

The editor of the Atlantic magazine was inadvertently added to a Signal chat in which senior security officials in the Trump administration, including Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, discussed details of air strikes on Yemen (Credit: AFP)

The Pentagon inspector general's office will investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss air strikes on Yemen, the watchdog said Thursday.

President Donald Trump's administration is facing a scandal over the accidental leak of a group chat by senior security officials on the strikes, which targeted Yemen's Huthi rebels.

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