Pete Hegseth was part of “multiple” unauthorized Signal group chats sharing sensitive Pentagon secrets, according to an inspector general’s report into the leak scandal.

One of the chat groups was tagged “Defense Team Huddle” and may have also included information about a planned military attack, an official told the inquiry.

Rather than using an encrypted government communication device, Hegseth posted on his personal cellphone, which the report says violated Defense Department protocol.

The declassified review’s condemnation of the Pentagon chief’s actions comes as he faces calls from Democratic lawmakers to face war crimes charges for allegedly issuing an order to kill everyone on board an alleged narco boat in the Caribbean in September.

The inspector general launched the Signal i

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