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ARTICLE VIEW:
Pentagon watchdog has completed review of Hegseth’s use of Signal,
sources say
By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated:
12:03 PM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025
Source: CNN
The Pentagon’s internal watchdog has completed a of use of Signal to
discuss sensitive military operations and has submitted its findings to
Hegseth for review, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Hegseth will now have the opportunity to comment and provide feedback
on the Pentagon Inspector General’s findings, which is standard
practice for such reviews, before the final report is provided to
Congress in the coming days, the sources said. A version of it will
likely be made public, one of the sources said.
The Office of the Inspector General declined to comment, telling CNN
that “to protect the integrity of our process, we do not discuss
ongoing reviews.”
Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told CNN that “per
longstanding Department of War policy, we do not comment on ongoing
investigations.” In July, however, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean
Parnell confirmed that Hegseth had provided a written statement to the
inspector general and called the IG review “a political witch hunt by
Biden administration holdovers” and “a sham, conducted in bad faith
and with extreme bias.”
It is not yet clear what the final report will say, and Hegseth and his
office have consistently denied that he shared any classified
information on Signal.
The Pentagon’s inspector general launched the review in April after
The Atlantic revealed that Hegseth had shared information from his
Signal account related to US military operations in Yemen, which
included precise details about the timing, choreography and assets
involved in pending US strikes against the Houthi rebel group.
Following that report, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate
Armed Services Committee requested an IG review to determine whether
Hegseth violated any laws related to the handling of classified
information or records retention for federal employees.
Hegseth’s account shared details about the anti-Houthi military
operation in at least two separate Signal group chats, one of which
included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer, CNN has reported. One
witness told the inspector general’s office over the course of the
review that they recalled being a part of about a dozen separate Signal
chats that included Hegseth, but it’s not clear if they all contained
sensitive operational details, CNN also reported.
The inspector general examined whether anyone else could have
physically entered the information into the Signal chat at Hegseth’s
request, and asked witnesses whether others had access to his phone,
CNN has reported.
The inspector general also received evidence that the military plans
disclosed by Hegseth’s account were taken from a US Central Command
document that was marked classified at the time.
The document was marked Secret/NOFORN, meaning no foreign nationals
should see it, CNN reported. Hegseth has original classification
authority, so he was authorized to declassify any information before he
shared it, sources told CNN at the time. But it’s unclear if he did
so.
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