{"id":1073,"date":"2025-04-23T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oboxma.com\/another-signal-group-chat-was-discovered-and-it-could-mean-the-end-for-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:21:26","slug":"another-signal-group-chat-was-discovered-and-it-could-mean-the-end-for-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oboxma.com\/en\/another-signal-group-chat-was-discovered-and-it-could-mean-the-end-for-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Signal group chat was discovered and it could mean the end for Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, already at the center of controversy for leaking sensitive, classified information about an imminent military strike in Yemen to a Signal group featuring several members of the Trump administration, including Vice President JD Vance, as well as a journalist from The Atlantic added by mistake, is once again causing scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lnfixtzmr22k\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidtbb75bgifkvqwuoa4tvzx4dahi4f25p57cmkjqtfs4etekbiaxu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">At the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at reporters over coverage of him sharing war plans in a second Signal chat that included members of his family and his personal lawyer. Read more: nyti.ms\/3GiswuB<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r?ref_src=embed\">The New York Times (@nytimes.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r\/post\/3lnfixtzmr22k?ref_src=embed\">2025-04-22T10:49:03.116Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>New revelations from the New York Times indicate that he would have shared the same information in a second Signal group, this time made up of his wife, family members, lawyer and personal assistants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-7259156\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-tor.buminteractif.com\/2025\/04\/22181200\/GettyImages-2210761875-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These messages, which Pete Hegseth allegedly first received from General Michael Erik Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command, via a secure U.S. government system, contained specific information about the March strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBC News, the Secretary of Defense ultimately transmitted this information from his personal phone to two newsgroups on Signal, not just one as initially reported, despite a clear warning from one of his aides against sharing classified data via an unsecured communications system.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-7259158\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-tor.buminteractif.com\/2025\/04\/22181219\/12-trump-pete-hegseth-GettyImages-2201503786-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former Fox &#038; Friends Weekend host denied sharing classified information in these newsgroups, while acknowledging the existence of a second Signal group.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed the accusations at the outset, claiming that the media were relaying old information provided, he said, by disgruntled former employees.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-7259159\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-tor.buminteractif.com\/2025\/04\/22181240\/Pete-HegsethGettyImages-2206243296-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hegseth, with Donald Trump&#8217;s support, continues to weather the controversy for the time being, despite calls for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, Republican Representative Don Bacon, who called the existence of this second Signal group &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This content was created with the help of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hegseth, with Donald Trump&#8217;s support, continues to weather the controversy for the time being, despite calls for his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"desc":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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