A mere three days after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on national television that America "no longer looked like fools," it emerged that he was part of a group of high-ranking officials who inadvertently texted plans for an attack in Yemen to a journalist.
Hegseth, alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and others, had been using the messaging platform Signal to discuss highly sensitive and classified information.
