Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

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Source: New York Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic.

Mr. Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee, but she has traveled with him overseas and drawn criticism for accompanying her husband to sensitive meetings with foreign leaders.

Mr. Hegseth’s brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who continues to serve as his personal lawyer, both have jobs in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why either would need to know about upcoming military strikes aimed at the Houthis in Yemen.

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[UpInArms]

1. Loose lips

Sink ships

[BoRaGard]

2. Heg's Seth needs to straighten up and fly right

as my old man would say. He lives in a frikken cloud of confusion.

[Paladin]

10. And what indications do we have that he's capable of following your old man's advice? (nt)

[Leghorn21]

3. His wife, his brother, his lawyer

his dry cleaning guy, his favorite waitress, his yard guy, his uncle Bob, his barber, his housekeeper, his paperboy, his vet, his mother's best friend, his old high school coach, his dentist, his mailman, his high school sweetheart, his banker, his brother’s mother-in-law, his podiatrist
Did I leave anyone out

[DBoon]

16. His cat

[COL Mustard]

19. You left out bartender....

A crucial job on Whiskey Pete's staff.

[IronLionZion]

22. Putin, Iran, Houthis, Kim Jong Un

and a partridge in a pear tree

[Prairie Gates]

26. To be fair, his favorite waitress could be his new wife before Trump's term is out

This guy goes through wives faster than I wear out my socks.

[thesquanderer]

4. Sounds like Hegseth shouldn't be allowed to operate his phone without blowing into a breathalyzer.

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He may need something like a designated tweeter.

[Sane1]

5. Clean it Up!!

Hey Whiskey Pete, Clean it up!!!!!

[Irish_Dem]

6. If he is in a black out he has no idea what he is doing, and no memory of events.

Maybe this is why he has to have his family around him.

[Turbineguy]

7. People like us

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8. Hilarious and sadly true

[Efilroft Sul]

9. Is Pete drunk-bombing again?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. WhiskeyLeaks

Link to tweet

BREAKING - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared War plans in a SECOND group message with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer reports the New York Times.

REPOST ♻️ if you Agree he should RESIGN.

[Karasu]

12. What the fuck is it going to take? Everyone who was in that first chat should have immediately been fired. That would

have been the appropriate protocol.

And now--of fucking course--it's happening AGAIN?

[CTyankee]

15. In any other office, he would be terminated immediately.

Seriously, this man needs to also be in alcohol rehab and given medical attention. His drinking problem is now a serious threat to our national security.

[Skittles]

27. outside of Trump.2 that rapist alcoholic would never pass the background check

NOPE

[Historic NY]

13. Putins listening.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Start the clock.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[calimary]

30. Can't GET RID OF HIM soon enough!

Only problem is, who will be selected to replace him? I'm almost too disgusted AND terrified even to venture a guess.

Dear God help us all...

[Mysterian]

17. Dangerous incompetence

at the highest levels of government.

[Enter stage left]

18. But, but, but...HER EMAILS!

[Montauk6]

20. SIGNALGATE 2: Egregrious Bungle-oo?

[LudwigPastorius]

21. In Hegseth's defense,...

he's usually too drunk by the end of the day for "pillow talk", so Signal is the only way he can share top secret information with his wife.

[IronLionZion]

23. So if they are not going to stop using Signal

it's long past time to fire this meritocracy of qualified super geniuses. They are putting our troops in danger.

[Prairie Gates]

24. Here's why he was firing all his hand-picked staff, I guess

What an absolute catastrophe this guy is.

[Botany]

25. Why does he still even have his job? None of those people were in the chain of those that need to know.

In England in WW II a general was talking about the upcoming D-Day invasion in
a bar or club in London and a Jr. Lt. heard him talking about it and reported what
happened to his superior officer and when Gen. Eisenhower found out he had that
General busted down in rank and sent home.

[Deuxcents]

28. Our national security is a family affair now

[live love laugh]

29. It's not a "war plan" (therefore it's ok) was the last argument. The

complicit Republ-IC-an owned media is enabling them to double down. Because doing the wrong thing again apparently makes it right in MAGAT world.

[elocs]

31. A shoe salesman could be picked to head the Defense Department

and except for the improvement over Hegseth, nobody would know the difference.
(Apologies to shoe salesmen. Do we still have shoe salesmen? Or are they called shoe salespeople now?)

[HipChick]

32. DUI hire..

[Canada Kid]

33. Jackass

FANTASTIC!! Putting the security of the nation into the hands of an alcoholic child! This incompetent idiot has to go...and this won't happen as long as there are incompetent idiots supporting him!

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Pete Hegseth is basically Jack Teixeira

So Pete Hegseth is basically Jack Teixeira, sharing classified info to impress people in his group chats. Funny thing: Teixeira got 15 years in prison for his pathetic caper.

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35. 'Full-blown meltdown' at Trump's Pentagon as Hegseth faces fresh Signal chat allegations

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces new fallout from Signal chat, the Pentagon's former spokesperson said there's “total chaos” at the DOD.

As Hegseth's Pentagon reaches the "full-blown meltdown" stage, don't forget to blame the president and 50 Republican senators who thought it'd be a good idea to put a manifestly unqualified television personality in charge of the Defense Department. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-04-21T12:04:39.303Z

As Hegseth's Pentagon reaches the "full-blown meltdown" stage, don't forget to blame the president and 50 Republican senators who thought it'd be a good idea to put a manifestly unqualified television personality in charge of the Defense Department.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/full-blown-meltdown-trumps-pentagon-hegseth-faces-fresh-signal-chat-al-rcna202091

And just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse, they got worse. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, two sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to NBC News. He did so after an aide had warned him to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen operation, the sources said.

These allegations, of course, come on the heels of Hegseth’s prominent role in last month’s Signal chat scandal — the controversy some have labeled “Signalgate” — that’s currently under investigation by the Department of Defense’s inspector general’s office. (Hegseth continues to deny allegations that he shared classified information through unsecured channels. The White House echoed the denial.)

“You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out from the same media that pedaled the Russia hoax,” Hegseth told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked about the latest revelations. (The Russia scandal was quite real, no matter how many times Trump's allies pretend otherwise.)

He added: “This is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations. Not going to work with me.”......

Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.

In a normal and healthy political environment, Hegseth would have no choice at this point but to start writing his resignation letter and putting his belongings in a cardboard box. Then again, in a normal and healthy political environment, a president wouldn’t have nominated a manifestly unqualified, scandal-plagued television personality to lead the Defense Department, and in a normal and healthy political environment, his nomination would’ve received zero confirmation votes in the Senate.

Indeed, as the chaos intensifies at the Pentagon, I find myself looking anew at the roll call on Hegseth’s confirmation, when 50 Republican senators put aside everything they knew about the nominee and put him in an incredibly important and challenging position. As the scandal mounts, they bear as much responsibility as anyone.