Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks in front of President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on December 2, 2025. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to share highly-sensitive attack plans targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to four sources familiar with the contents of a classified Inspector General report.

The repercussions of Hegseth’s action, two sources told CNN, are less clear since the IG concluded that the defense secretary has the authority to declassify information and Hegseth asserted he made an operational decision i

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