In another chat, according to the source, Hegset shared the details of the attack similar to those that were disclosed last month by The Atlantic after his editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistaken in the chat in the Signal application.
The interlocutor of the agency said that about a dozen people took part in the second chat and he was created during the procedure for approving his candidacy to discuss administrative issues, and not detailed military planning. According to the source, the chat discusses the details of the airstrike schedule.
Reuters notes that the wife of the Hegset Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, attended confidential meetings with foreign military colleagues, this can be seen in the photo published by the Pentagon. Highsset's brother is a representative of the Ministry of Internal Security in the Pentagon.
According to CNN, Hegset continued to use this chat for communication and after it was approved. Former hegset spokesman John Ullion told the agency That in the Pentagon a full chaos has been “reigns for a month”, from leaks of secret operational plans to mass layouts.
Sources told the channel that a series of leaks on the military planning of the Panama Canal and the Middle East, about the possible consolidation of combat commands and the secret briefing in China for Ilon Mask in the Pentagon deeply shocked the Hegset in mid -March. Therefore, in the Pentagon, leaks were investigated, supplemented by tests on the polygraph. Last week, Hegset fired three high -ranking officials – his chief adviser Dan Kolduell, deputy chief of staff of Darina Selodnik and Colin Carroll, who served as chief of staff of the Deputy Minister of Defense.
The representative of the Pentagon Sean Parnell wrote in X that there was no secret information in any Signal chat. “The media that hate Trump continue to destroy anyone who is committed to the President Trump's program,” he said. According to him, the media relied only on the words of people who were dismissed this week, who “have a motive for sabotage” Highset and Trump.
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4/20/25
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Another Day, Another Old Story – Back from the Dead. The Trump-Chating Media Continues to Be Obsessed with Destroying Anyone Committed to President Trump's Agenda. This Time, The New York Times – And All Other Fake News that Repeat Their …
– Sean Parnell (@seanparnellatsd) April 21, 2025
Context
On March 24, Goldberg said his An erroneously added to the chat in the Signal messenger, in which representatives of US President Donald Trump were discussing planned American Blows on the Yemeni Husites. Accounts identified as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, signed as Maro, US Vice President Jay Di Wans, US National Security Council Mike Waltz, National Intelligence Director Tulsey Gabbard, Minister of Finance Scott Immotent, US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset, and there were 18 people in the chat.
On March 25, Hegset said in a commentary Fox News, which was published in X that “no one corresponded about military plans”, after it became known that the journalist got access to the chat. He called the editor “false” and “discredited by the so -called journalist”, referring to the previous critical reports of the publication about Trump.
On the same day, Politico wrote that Trump could fire Waltz Due to the leakage of Yemen attacks, but the representative of the White House Caroline Livitt said that the US President has no questions for the National Security Advisor and other main security officials.
March 26 Politico With reference to the sources, it wrote that Trump was furious due to Waltz's mistake.
On March 30, Trump said that he was not planning to dismiss anyone, as well as that he trusts Waltz and Hegset.
On April 16, Reuters reported that one of the leading advisers of the Hegset was dismissed after his personality was established during the leakage investigation in the Ministry of Defense.
