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The Pentagon Inspector Acting announced on Thursday that he will be reviewed by the Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth’s using Signal An app to exchange messages to transfer plans for military strike against Houthhi militants in Yemen.
The review will also consider the use of other defense officers publicly available encrypted applications, which is unable to cope with classified material and is not part of the Ministry of Defense’s security communication network.
The Hegsetsh use of the application has announced when the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg from Atlantic, has inadvertently added to the signal text chain by national security adviser Mike Waltz. The chain included Hegsetth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others, gathered to discuss military operations on March 15 against Iran Houthis.
“The aim of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and the rest of the DOD staff respects the policies and procedures of DOD to use the commercial message for official business,” said the acting inspector, Steven Stebbins, in a letter of notice of Hegseth.
The letter also states that his office will “review the respect for the Classification and Retention Registers.”
Hegsetth and other members of the Trump administration require a law to archive their official conversations, and it is not clear whether copies of the discussions forwarded to the official E -Kost so that they can be permanently trapped for the leadership of federal records.
Pentagon sent all the questions to the Office of the General Inspector, citing an ongoing investigation.
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In the chain, Hegsetth provided the exact time of war aircraft and when the bombs would fall – before men and women performed these attacks on behalf of the United States in the air.
The examination was launched at the request of Senator Roger Wicker, R-MISS., Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, and Senator Jack Reed Rhode Iceland, the best Democrat of the Committee.
At the Congress hearing, democratic legislators expressed concern about using signal and pressing military officers on whether to use the commercial app to discuss military operations.
Both current and former military officials said that the level of details that Hegsetth divided into a signal would most likely classified. Trump’s administration insisted that not distributed classified information.
Waltz fights the call for his overthrow and, so far, President Donald Trump said he was standing next to his national security advisor.
On Thursday, Trump fired several members of Waltz’s staff after the extreme right -wing activist Laura Loomer invited the president to clean the staff who considered the insufficient loyal to his program “Make America from the Great,” said several people to get to know this issue.
At the Senate Confirmation on Tuesday, Trump’s candidate for president of the joint chief of the staff, Lieutenant Dan Caine, would not say whether officials should have used a safer communication system for discussing the attack plans.
“What I will say is that we should always preserve the element of surprise,” Caine Senators said.
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