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The Inspector General of the US Department of Defense has launched Investigation Into Hegset’s Use to the Signal Application To Message Officials About Military Strikes in Houti Rebels in Yemen.
The White House Faced Backlash After A Journalist Was Added To Group Chat – Where Specific Details of Strikes Were Discussed – On The Commercial App.
The Investigation Comes at The Request Republican-Led Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Goal of the Probe Is to Determine Whether The Secretary and Other Staff Complied With The Department Policies Using Messaging Applications To Discuss Official Business.
The Acting Inspector General, Steven Stebbins, Said In A Letter To Hung That The Watchdog Would Also “Review Compliance With Classification and Records Requirements”.
The White House Faced Questions After Atlantic Magazine Editor Jeffrey Goldberg Was A Signal Chat in Early March, What Hegsth Discussed The Exact Timings of Planned Strikes and Other Packages and Other Details.
Democrats Have Called Officials – Including Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Who Created The Group Chat – To Resign Over The Incident.
The Trump Administration Maintains The Information Shared in the Chat Was Not Classified.
The Inspector General’s Letters Hogseth to contact with the Investigation Within Days, Including One Government Employee Who is the Incident AS Well As a “Member of the Senior Executive service or a general / flag officer”.
The Review Will Take Place in Washington DC, And at US Central Command Headquarters in Tampa, Florida, According to The Letter.
Speaking at a news Conference on Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi Said She Was Of The Inspector General’s Probe.
“Those Cases Would Have To Be Referred to Me,” She Said. “They have not referred me to me.”
On 26 March, Senate Armed Services Roger Wicker and Ranking Member Democrat Jack Reed Asked The Pentagens Were Communicated in the Signal Chat, Defense Department on Sharing Sensitive Information Recommendations on ACTIONS The Government Should Take.
The Senators Said The Signal Scandal “AS to Questions To The Use of Unclassified Networks to Sensitive and Classified Information.”