Pentagon opens probe into Hegseth's Signal app use

The Pentagon has launched an investigation into whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated department policy by discussing military attack plans in a private chat on the Signal app after The Atlantic reported its editor-in-chief was accidentally included in a text thread on plans to attack the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Associated Press obtained a letter from Pentagon’s Inspector General Steven Stebbins to Hegseth stating in part, “The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business. Additionally, we will review compliance with classification and records retention requirements.”