The General Inspector of the Pentagon will explore the chat group, where Minister of Defense Pete HegSeth and other officials of Donald Trump’s administration discussed the details of the imminent attack on the Houth Militants in Yemen.
“We will start evaluating the subject” in response to the legislators’ request for “investigations of recent public news on the use of the Minister of Defense Using unclassified commercially available requests for reporting to discuss information concerning military actions in Yemen in March 2025.”
Roger Wicker, Republican Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jack Reed, the Supreme Democrat of the Panel, asked the General Inspector last week to explore the “facts and circumstances” around the episode that came to light because the magazine editor was unintentionally included in the discussion and assessed the Ministry of Defense policy.
“If this is true, this news raises questions about the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information,” the senators said in a letter to Steven Stebbins, the general inspector of the reigning Pentagon.
Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg released a story that said he was unintentionally added to a group chat about waiting against the Houthis, which included the best US officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth.
The Atlantic later published a conversion of the cottage, including the text in which HegSeth shared details of timing shortly before the attacks, as IOs to do that by US military assets.
Normally, such a letter would almost immediately trigger a probe. President Donald Trump, however, after joining office in January, burned Stebbins’ predecessor Robert Storch, along with several other general inspectors and left questions about the current position of the office.
The Pami Bondi Prosecutor has indicated that he will not look for a signal episode probe and says it was just a mistake.
“It was sensitive information that was not classified and unintentionally released,” Bondi said. “What we should talk about is a very successful mission. Our world is now safer because of this mission. We will not comment on it further.”
HegSeth was defiantly in addressing the problem and told the reporters, “No one is sending war plans, and that’s all I say.”
Democrat Reed said on Thursday in a statement that he welcomed the revision. “Whether it is intended or not, Minister HegSeth endangered the lives of US service units through his recklessness,” Reed said.
It is rare for the General Inspector of the Pentagon, but it is not unprecedented to investigate the leaders of the defense, including the Minister of Defense.
Storch launched an investigation at the beginning of 2024 after the discussion that Defense Minister Lloyd Austin kept her secret to his hospitalization was unnecessarily represented by the risk of national security. Storch issued a report that came to the conclusion that such risks did not take place, but called for a greater clarity of what should happen if the leader is incapable.
Similarly, the General Inspector completed the review of the reigning secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan in 2019 after he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he would welcome an investigation to claim a lawyer group that he showed bias towards Boeing Co., where he was a executive before joining Trump Administration. The general inspector did not remain this accusation.
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