Pentagon Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies

It’s been months since a group of Trump administration officials… Set up a group chat on Signal To discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen with the inadvertent addition of a journalist, and now the Pentagon Inspector General has released his report on the chaos. The findings of Stephen Stebbins’ eight-month investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not comply with Department of Defense policies by “using an unapproved, commercially available messaging application to send non-public information to the Department of Defense.”

He also said he risked the potential exposure of “sensitive DoD information” as a result, but only recommended a review of classification procedures, and said another report recommended “corrective actions” that, if implemented and adhered to, would comply with the department’s requirements.

The report consists of 84 pages Available in full hereHegseth himself appears to have responded to the investigation with a statement in July in which he said he shared “unspecified general details” about the raid, and declined interview requests.

The investigation also had to rely on reports received from the journalist added to the chat. Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, since its auto-delete function only allowed them to retrieve some discussions.

We have asked the Ministry of Defense to provide a copy of the Minister’s correspondence on or around Signal
March 15, 2025. The Ministry of Defense provided a partial copy of messages from the Minister’s personal cell phone,
Including some messages previously reported by The Atlantic, but others were automatically deleted due to…
From chat settings. Therefore, we had to rely partly on a transcript of the conversation that The Atlantic published publicly (“Houthi PC Small Group”) for a complete record.

In a tweet Published on Wednesday evening, Hegseth claimed the report showed “no classified information. Complete exoneration.” However, a member of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona He told reporters today “It was said that he violated some Department of Defense regulations…so whether that was a violation of the law, you have to find out.”