"A United States Inspector General report publicly released today found that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could have put US troops and military operations at risk by using the consumer messaging service Signal to share sensitive, real-time details in March about a planned attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The IG first shared the classified report with Congress on Tuesday."
"The report contains only one direct recommendation: that the chief of US Central Command's Special Security Office "review the command's classification procedures for compliance" with Department of Defense regulations "and issue additional procedures, as necessary, to ensure proper portion marking of classified information." The report also references another IG publication about use of "non-DoD-controlled electronic messaging systems" and points to its recommendations that DoD "improve training for senior DoD officials on the proper use of electronic devices.""
"The incident the IG was investigating is often called "Signalgate," because top US officials were using the mainstream platform for communications that would typically occur through secure government channels. Crucially, then-US national security adviser Michael Waltz accidentally invited The Atlantic's top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, to the Signal chat as well. Goldberg subsequently publicized the existence of the chat and his mistaken inclusion—illustrating in real time some of the dangers of using a consumer app for highly secret government and military business."
A United States Inspector General found that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could have put US troops and military operations at risk by using Signal to share sensitive, real-time details in March about a planned attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The IG shared the classified report with Congress. The IG recommended that the chief of US Central Command's Special Security Office review classification procedures for compliance with Department of Defense regulations and issue additional procedures to ensure proper portion marking of classified information. The IG referenced guidance on non-DoD-controlled electronic messaging systems and recommended improved training for senior DoD officials on proper use of electronic devices. The incident, often called "Signalgate," involved Michael Waltz accidentally inviting Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat, and Hegseth messaging that they were "currently clean on opsec." The IG notes Hegseth is the "head original classification authority in the DoD."
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