A new chat puts the secretary to the defense of the United States Pete Hegseth in trouble. According to what revealed by the New York Times and CNN, Hegseth He would have shared information regarding US air attacks on Yemen against the Houthi group in a second group chat of Signal, who this time included his wife, his lawyer and his brother.
It would therefore be the second time that Hegseth is accused of having shared sensitive military information on the messaging app with unauthorized staff. Last March, The Atlantic magazine revealed that her director had been inadvertently included in a chat of Signal where officials, including Hegseth and the Mike Waltz national security councilor, discussed attacks on the Yemeni rebel group, which then took place on March 15. Revelation that triggered an uproar, throwing embarrassment over the entire Trump administration and given life to an investigation by the interim inspector of the Department of Defense. Investigation that is still ongoing.
And the scandal revealed today first by the New York Times and then by the CNN, comes following particularly turbulent days at the Defense Department, after Hegseth fired Caldwell, Selnick and Carroll and while some of his closest councilors have started to launch a series of alarms on the work of the secretary.
In particular, his former press officer, John Ullyot: «It was a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From the escapes of news of operational plans sensitive to mass layoffs, dysfunction is now a great distraction for the president, who deserves better from his senior leadership, “said Ullyot in a declaration obtained by the CNN.
In this new investigation, the New York Times explains that the information released by Hegseth “included the flight timetables of the F/A-18 Hornet who targeted the Houthi in Yemen” and that, unlike the escape of accidental news in which the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was incorrectly included in the group, this group chat was voluntarily created by Hegseth.
The CNN explains that if Hegseth’s brother, Phil, and his lawyer Tim Parlator, both have a job at the Department of Defense, his wife Jennifer – journalist and former producer of Fox News – No. But despite this, Hegseth, during the beginning of his mandate he regularly included it in meetings with foreign leaders, generating controversy and discussions on the opportunity of his presence.
A new chat-gate would raise further concerns about Hegseth’s judgment, already strongly criticized among the current and former officials, just as Washington is engaged in an important military operation against the Houthi.
“Even the strong supporters of the secretary how they must admit it to me: the last month was a real collapse to the Pentagon – and now this situation is becoming a real problem for the administration”.
Appeal of the dem leaders in the Senate, Trump Standzi Hegseth
The leader of the Democrats in the Senate of the United States, Chuck Schumer, asked that President Donald Trump sides the secretary of defense Hegseth.
“The details continue to emerge. We continue to discover how Pete Hegseth has put human lives at risk,” wrote Schumer, a democratic senator of New York on X. Senator dem has added that Trump “is still too weak” to fire the head of the Pentagon. But “Pete Hegseth must be fired”, he thundered.
Yemen: new US RAID wave, at least 12 deaths and 30 injured
At least 12 people were killed and 30 others were injured yesterday in a series of attacks carried out by US jets against the popular Farwah neighborhood, in the center of the Yemenita Sanaa capital, reported the Houthi Ministry of Health. The dicastery said in a note reported by the Yemenita Saba news agency that these people were victims “of an air attack launched by the US aggression against the popular market in the Farwah district, in the Shaub district”, adding that the budget is only “preliminary”.
In the note, the Houthi condemned the attacks of the United States “against civilians, residential neighborhoods and structures, in the flagrant violation of laws, conventions and international standards”.
Yesterday, the US war planes carried out a new wave of bombings on at least three Provinces Yemeni, including the capital, in the context of a similar raid campaign that in the last few days has caused dozens of deaths. According to the press agency Houthi al Masirah, the air attacks also targeted several objectives on Mount Faj Atan in Sanàa. The inhabitants of the capital reported that in that mountainous area there are caves where weapons and ammunition are stored.