Acting Inspector General of the Pentagon announced Thursday that he would review the Secretary of Defense Stomach hegsith Use Hint Messaging app to deliver military strike plans against Houthi militants in Yemen.
The review will also consider the use of the publicly available encrypted app by other defense officials, which is unable to handle the content and is not part of the Defense Department's secure communication network.
The use of the Hegsit app came when a journalist from the Atlantic Ocean, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently included in the signal text China by national security adviser Mike Walts. Hagsith, Vice President JD Venus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the National Intelligence, Tulsi Gibard and others were involved in this regard, gathered to discuss military operations on March 15 against Iran -backed Houthis.
Acting Inspector General, Steven Stibans, told Hegsit in a information letter, “The purpose of this diagnosis is to what extent the Secretary of Defense and other DOD personnel complied with DOD policies and procedures for the use of trade messaging requests for public business.”
The letter also stated that his office would “review compliance with the classification and record -keeping requirements.”
The Hegsith and other members of the Trump administration need to secure their official talks by law, and it is unclear that if copies of the debate are sent to a government email, they can be permanently occupied to keep the federal record.
The Pentagon sent all questions to the Inspector General's office, citing the ongoing investigation.
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In this regard, Hegseth provided the same times of the start of the warplane and when the bombs would fall – before men and women were born by plane by the United States before the attack.
The review begins with the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen Roger Vicker, R. Miss. The request was made, and the committee's top Democrat Road Island San Jack Red.
In Congress hearings, Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern over the use of signal and suppressed military officers whether they would be appropriate to use a commercial app to discuss military operations.
Both the current and former military officials have said that most likely the signal has been ranked in detail by Hagsit shared. The Trump administration has insisted that no information information has been shared.
Waltz is fighting against his ousted calls, and so far, President Donald Trump has said he stands with his national security adviser.
On Thursday, Trump fired several members of the Walts staff when right -wing activist Laura Loomar called on the president to clean up the staff to make his “re -make the United States a great” agenda.
At the Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Trump's name for Lieutenant General Dan Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would not say whether personnel should have used more secure communication systems to discuss attack plans.
“What I say is that we should always protect the surprise element,” Ken told senators.
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