Pentagon’s Watchdog to Review Hegseth’s Use of Signal App to Convey Plans for Houthi Strike

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    U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a joint news conference with Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday that he would review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.

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    The review will also look at other defense officials’ use of the publicly available encrypted app, which is not able to handle classified material and is not part of the Defense Department’s secure communications network.

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    krechtz
    krechtz
    1 month ago

    They’re should’ve been on DoD’s MS-TEAMS chat. Yes, that what they use.
    Actually Teams for Business has a mechanism preventing company ousiders from joining which would have prevented Goldberg in the group. Signal protocol supposedly (presumably if not a NSA plant) is the gold standard in chat encryption and far superior than Teams SIPRNet …all good until you stupidly invite an outsider.