US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there to represent the US,
The Naval Academy removed and then put back photos of female Jewish leaders at its Jewish chapel, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed.
The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key national security officials to discuss military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month,
Senior Trump administration officials have been accused of using the third-party app to discuss highly sensitive national security information.
The inquiry will examine whether the Pentagon chief violated the agency’s standards for sharing classified information.
The senior Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services committee requested the probe after Hegseth disclosed sensitive on Signal.
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The Pentagon's inspector general launched a probe into the Trump administration's use of Signal to discuss a planned strike on the Houthis in Yemen.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's younger brother is a Homeland Security liaison to the Pentagon. His wife reportedly joined sensitive meetings.