The Department of Defense‘s Office of the Inspector General announced Thursday that it will investigate Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth‘s use of Signal to discuss possible military operations.
The Signal group chat included several Cabinet members, including Hegseth, as well as Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was added accidentally and unknowingly. Cabinet members used the unsecured platform to discuss whether to begin a military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.
Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Jack Reed (D-RI), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, respectively, called on the inspector general to investigate the matter last week.
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Steven Stebbins is currently serving as acting DOD inspector general after President Donald Trump fired Robert Storch, former inspector general.
Stebbins notified Hegseth and Deputy
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