The Washington Post PoliticsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a World War II memorial cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on Friday. (Lou Benoist/AFP/Getty Images)
By Dan Lamothe
The Defense Department inspector general’s office is examining whether it was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or an aide, perhaps acting at his behest, who used Hegseth’s account on the unclassified chat application Signal to divulge detailed information about forthcoming air attacks on Yemen, according to people familiar with the Pentagon watchdog’s work and communications reviewed by The Washington Post.