The Guardian dog independent of the Pentagon has announced that it has agreed to a request from the main senators and is launching an investigation into the use of the signal of the commercial messaging application by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior officials of the Trump administration to discuss an imminent American military strike against Houthi’s militants in Yemen.
Last week, the president of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker, Miss Republican, and the classification member Jack Reed, Dr.i., sent a letter to the Interim Inspector General of the Department of Defense Steven Stebbins requesting an accelerated investigation into that signal discussion.
“The purpose of this memorandum is to notify that we are initiating the evaluation of the subject,” Stebbins wrote in a memorandum to the offices of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Defense. “We are carrying out this evaluation in response to a letter of March 26, 2025 that I received from the President and Member of Classification of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting that you carry out an investigation into recent public reports on the Secretary of Defense of a commercially available messaging application to discuss information related to military actions in Yemen in March 2025.”
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, speaks during a joint press conference with the Minister of Defense of the Philippines, Gilberto Teodoro, in Camp Aguinaldo, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 28, 2025.
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“The objective of this evaluation is to determine to what extent the Secretary of Defense and other personnel of the Department of Defense complied with the policies and procedures of the Department of Defense for the use of a request for commercial messages for official businesses.
“We can review the objective as the evaluation progresses. We plan to carry out this evaluation in accordance with the Council of the General Inspectors on the standards of integrity and efficiency quality for inspection and evaluation,” he said.
Last week, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he had been added to a signal text group that seemed to include senior national security officials of the Trump administration, including vice president JD Vance, discussing plans to attack Houthi goals in Yemen in Mid-March.
The senior Trump administration officials, including Hegseth, retreated the description of the Atlantic conversation and argued that qualified war plans had not been discussed.
