- Pete Hegseth shared details about the strike of 15 March.
- Fowered information to group chat by him.
- Group chat includes his wife, Dozen other people.
Washington: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has once again shared information about the upcoming US air strikes in a private signal chat group on Yemen, including his wife, brother and personal lawyer. new York Times,
AFP Was not able to verify independently Times‘Report, which is wide that for the second time Hegseth has been accused of sharing sensitive military information on the commercial message app with unauthorized personnel.
Last month, Atlantic Magazine revealed that its editor-in-chief was inadvertently involved in a signal chat, in which officials, including Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, discussed the strike on March 15.
The revelation caused an uproar, with US President Donald Trump’s administration to face a scam on a contingent leakage. In that leak, investigation of a Pentagon Inspector-General is going on.
On Sunday, The Times reported that Hegseth shared the information of March 15 with the second signal group chat on the same 15 March.
The newspaper reported that in the shared information, “Yemen included flight programs for the F/A -18 hornets targeting Hauthis”.
The outlet stated that, contrary to the accidental leak, where journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally inducted into the group, the group was created by chat Hegseth. The other chat was introduced by Waltz.
“It included his wife and about a dozen others of his personal and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as the Defense Secretary,” Times‘Citing anonymous sources.
Hegseth’s wife Jennifer is a journalist and former Fox News Manufacturer. The group also included his brothers Phil and Tim Parltor, both serve in roles in the Pentagon.
The Times reported that Parlatore also continues to work as a personal lawyer of Hegseth.
Pentagon did not respond immediately AFP Request for comment.
‘Badnami, baseless attack’
Trump blamed Waltz on a large scale for earlier leakage, but dismissed the call to the top officials to set fire and instead stressed what he said to the success of the raid on the Yemeni rebels.
This week, three top officials of Pentagon were discharged on pending investigation in the un line of the defense department in the Defense Department.
Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Cellic, Senior Advisors Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll came back on Sunday and issued a statement saying that the Pentagon officials had “condemned our character with baseless attacks.”
He said in a joint statement posted on social media, “At this time, we still have not been told what was really investigated, if there is still an active inquiry, or if there was a real inquiry into the ‘leak’ to start,” he said in a joint statement posted on social media.
“While this experience has been unconscious, we remain assistant to the Mission of Trump-Vance administration to make the Pentagon again great and achieve peace through strength.”
