
Hegseth fends off reporter’s questions about Signal chat leak: 'I know exactly what I'm doing'
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Pete Hegseth defended his job as Defense Secretary safter a reporter questioned about a leaked Signal chat group discussing forthcoming strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said he received a request to join the group chat on the encrypted messaging service Signal on March 11 from what appeared to be the president's National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Goldberg released screenshots of some of the message exchanges he observed.
Goldberg reported that officials were discussing "war plans" in the group chat called "Houthi PC Small Group," but he decided not to publish some of the highly sensitive information he saw, including precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing, due to potential threats to national security and military operations.