On June 7, it was reported that the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General was investigating whether or not it was staffers or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth himself who wrote about the military’s strikes on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen on the Signal app.
The Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General has spent several weeks interviewing Hegseth’s current and former staff members to figure out how United States strike details taken from a classified system wound up in a commercial messaging app known as Signal.
ABC News
The investigators are also asking the current and former staff members if they were asked by Hegseth or other officials to delete the messages. If this was the case, it would be illegal.
