Pete Hegseth’s decision to send secret military plans over a mobile app is under new scrutiny.
The Pentagon is diving deeper into the controversy surrounding a group chat between Trump administration officials discussing war plans in Yemen.
Department of Defense Inspector General Steven Stibbins shared in a memo that he plans to investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s contributions to the group chat, which unwittingly contained a member of the press. The announcement of the probe on Thursday came days after the Trump White House shared that the matter was «closed.»
“The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business,” Stebbins wrote.
