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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,825 posts)
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:53 PM Dec 2025

****BREAKING NEWS**** Inspector General Finds Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages

For nearly nine months, Trump-administration officials have defended top national-security leaders who shared information in a Signal chat about U.S. strikes in Yemen, first reported by The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently included in the group. Officials played down the severity of the breach and insisted that the information wasn’t classified.

Now the Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands. The information Hegseth shared included the precise times that fighter pilots would attack their targets. If Houthi militants had learned those details in advance, they might have been able to shoot down American planes or better defend their positions.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/hegseth-signalgate-trump-defense-pentagon/684997/

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****BREAKING NEWS**** Inspector General Finds Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2025 OP
Generals, admirals, and other high-ranking officers must feel let down to toe the line to this drunken minor major. Norrrm Dec 2025 #1
I thought Trump fired all the Inspector Generals? This one is fired tomorrow. dem4decades Dec 2025 #2
Of course. And the IG's family will be threatened by Ilsa Dec 2025 #9
If only there was a DOJ that protected the people that enforce the law. dem4decades Dec 2025 #12
That all depends on whose law is being enforced. groundloop Dec 2025 #21
Yup...his termination is imminent maspaha Dec 2025 #15
And arrested, threatened with the death penalty. nt MarineCombatEngineer Dec 2025 #18
Kegsbreath underpants Dec 2025 #3
Inspector General bout to get fired Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #4
Shouldn't it be Hegseth that gets fired? Martin Eden Dec 2025 #23
I really do think either pete or kash (or both) will be gone by end of month Torchlight Dec 2025 #5
Yep malaise Dec 2025 #13
Yup... GB_RN Dec 2025 #16
Yeah, jaymac Dec 2025 #17
K&R UTUSN Dec 2025 #6
The only thing shocking to me here is finding out inspector generals still exist. Takket Dec 2025 #7
What's the Inspector Generals name please? IcyPeas Dec 2025 #8
Here, use this archive site to read most paywalled articles: Celerity Dec 2025 #25
I'm sure he'll be fired. The Inspector General that is. Vinca Dec 2025 #10
Didn't he get caught doing the same in July? leftstreet Dec 2025 #11
This government excells at incompetence MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #14
Don't hold your breath if you think there will be any consequences for Hegseth. Gimpyknee Dec 2025 #19
Peat Kegsbreath: DUI Hire Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #20
Hallelujah! I have been waiting for this news! liberalla Dec 2025 #22
Took 'em long enough. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2025 #24
"Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages" J_William_Ryan Dec 2025 #26

Norrrm

(4,805 posts)
1. Generals, admirals, and other high-ranking officers must feel let down to toe the line to this drunken minor major.
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 02:57 PM
Dec 2025

Ilsa

(64,270 posts)
9. Of course. And the IG's family will be threatened by
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 04:16 PM
Dec 2025

trumpgoons if he/she doesn't stay silent.

Torchlight

(6,737 posts)
5. I really do think either pete or kash (or both) will be gone by end of month
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 03:25 PM
Dec 2025

Between the two, they're sucking news time away from the boy who would be king. I don't think Mr. trump wants anyone other than himself to receive the lion's share of the center of media discussion, whether good or bad. trump sees airtime like currency, and to trump there are no bad dollars, only people who have more or less of it than he.

GB_RN

(3,549 posts)
16. Yup...
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 05:25 PM
Dec 2025

That’s exactly why Eloon the Muskrat got shoved out. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent does not share a spotlight with anyone.

leftstreet

(40,261 posts)
11. Didn't he get caught doing the same in July?
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 04:21 PM
Dec 2025

Pretty sure an Inspector General said the same thing back then

And yet, Hegseth is still here

liberalla

(11,035 posts)
22. Hallelujah! I have been waiting for this news!
Wed Dec 3, 2025, 05:48 PM
Dec 2025

I kept hearing there was more to come out and this was not over... Yay!



J_William_Ryan

(3,466 posts)
26. "Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages"
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 06:32 AM
Dec 2025

And what’s going to be done about it?

Nothing, as usual.

The powerful are above the law, immune from being brought to justice.

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