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Investigators have revealed that JD Vance returned to the infamous Signal group chat, in which Pete Hegseth discusses confidential information About the attack on Yemen after the attack.
Defense Department investigation Event Vance was found to have sent the message in the chat at 2:30 a.m. on March 25, a day after it was reported that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief atlanticThe text was added to the series.
“This chat is kind of over. Anything going on?” Despite the chat’s security being compromised, Vance wrote.
According to DOD, there was little activity in the chat after Vance’s message 84-page folder In the Signalgate scandal, no one answered to the Vice President.
After Vance sent the message, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant initiated a setting that caused messages to be erased eight hours after they were sent. Also, a user named “MAR” changed his profile name to “MR”.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe also updated his profile name to “John”.
The report found that Hegseth had violated departmental policies by using that chat, and that put the lives of American soldiers in danger,
“Using personal cell phones to conduct official business and send non-public DoD information via Signal risks the potential exposure of sensitive DoD information, which could lead to harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives,” the report said.
The DOD document states that the Secretary of Defense Received information about impending strikes On March 14 at 9 pm the email from the head of US Central Command on Yemen was marked “SECRET // NOFORN”.
Hegseth shared this information in the “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat at 11.44 pm on 15 March, shortly before the attack occurred.
Goldberg, who was joined in the chat by Michael Waltz, broke the story on March 24, but removed any information that could have endangered the lives of American troops.
Signalgate scandal investigators wrote in the report that they were forced to rely heavily on the information given to Goldberg because they had only partial transcripts of the chats of people who used it.
Hegseth also denied claims that the information discussed in the chats was ever classified.
“No classified information,” he said written on x“Complete acquittal, Case closed, Houthis surrender,”
However, there is report Democrats are emboldened to push for Hegseth’s dismissal. On poor management of sensitive information.
Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “An objective, evidence-based investigation by the Pentagon’s internal watchdog leaves no doubt: Secretary Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots.” statement,
Warner also claimed that Hegseth’s disastrous handling of the information “reflects a broader pattern of negligence and poor judgment on the part of a Secretary who has repeatedly shown that he is in over his head.”
Hegseth is currently battling claims that DOD committed war crimes after this “Double Tap” strike started On an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
Secretary of Defense Officers reportedly ordered to “kill everyone” Boarding the ship, the army had to launch a second attack on the wreck to kill the survivors.
Hegest has claimed that the reports are “fake news” and argued that the attacks were “lawful under both US and international law.”