The internal supervision of the US Department of Defense checks the publication of material from a secret group chat of high-ranked government members. At the request of Defense Minister, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, the signal app is examined with the signal app, as can be seen from a letter from the independent control body.
Defense minister in meditation
According to this, it should be investigated whether Hegseth had inadvertently shared the operative schemes for an American military mission for an American military mission against Huthi Militia in Yemen and whether the rules on privacy and the storage of government documents were met. According to the letter, the work of other employees of other ministry is also in mind.
At the end of March, the US magazine Atlantic made public the contents of the chat after its editor-in-chief, accidentally invited to the signal group. From the passed communication, it shows that Hegseth called the schedule, the sequence of bombing and arms systems was used about half an hour before a military operation began. It literally states: “Target terrorists are in their well known place.”
In his request for Pentagon supervision, Republican Senator Roger Wicker and Democratic Senator Jack Reid expressed great concern. Use of non -classified network for communication as sensitive and secret information is suspected of “.
Trump is angry
At least US President Donald Trump recently stood behind members of the chat group, who also included his security advisor Mike Waltz. It clearly invited the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief. According to the New York Times, however, there is definitely resentment within the government.
Asked about the investigation initiated investigation, Trump got angry. “Don’t start it again,” he replied when asked by a journalist. “This is such a ruined story.”
(MHO)
