The Defense Department Office of Inspector General is expected to issue its report Thursday on the so-called Signalgate incident in which Secretary Pete Hegseth shared highly sensitive attack plans on the texting app Signal.
The DOD OIG will find that Hegseth should not have used Signal, that he “risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives,” and that he shared highly sensitive information with unauthorized individuals and failed to preserve those communications, as required, according to CNN. The DOD OIG report also finds that Hegseth violated Defense Department policies by using his personal device, The Washington Post reports.
However, Hegseth has claimed it as a win. “No classified information. Total exoneration. Case closed. Houthis bombed into submission. Thank you for your attention to this IG report,” he wrote on X on Wednesday.
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