Hegseth once again under attack in renewed effort to force ouster of Pentagon chief
July 24, 2025 | Chris Donaldson
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is once again under attack as a renewed effort to force the Pentagon chief out is underway, with the media doing its part to revive the Signalgate scandal that was initially deployed earlier this year but failed to catch fire.
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the information that Hegseth sent in a March group conversation on the Signal encrypted messaging platform, in which plans to bomb terrorist Houthis in Yemen were discussed, came from an email labeled as “SECRET/NOFORN,” according to the Pentagon’s inspector general.
The paper’s reporting once again cites the usual anonymous sources in “people familiar with the matter” to portray Hegseth as a reckless security risk for allegedly sharing the “SECRET/NOFORN” information, a designation that indicates highly sensitive material meant only for U.S. individuals and agencies and not foreigners.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1948092297683284112It would also seem to conflict with the Trump administration’s insistence that no classified information was shared by Hegseth in the Signal group chats.
“The revelation appears to contradict longstanding claims by the Trump administration that no classified information was divulged in unclassified group chats that critics have called a significant security breach,” the Post stated.
“The strike plans had been shared in a classified email with more than a dozen defense officials by Gen. Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, the top commander overseeing U.S. military operations in the Middle East, and then were posted in the unclassified group chats,” according to WaPo reporter Dan Lamothe, who wrote the piece along with John Hudson.
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