Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was too busy to comply with a federal record preservation law after using his private cellphone and the Signal app to brief group chat members, including editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, on sensitive details of then-imminent U.S. military strikes on Yemen in mid-March, a DoD inspector general report revealed Thursday.

The expected Signalgate report's top-line conclusions were that Hegseth, the Pentagon head and cabinet member for commander-in-chief President Donald Trump , "sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information over Signal from his personal cell phone 2 to 4 hours before the strikes occurred" — not complying with DoD Instruction 8170.01 on "Online Information Management and Electronic Messaging" — and, in doing so, "risk[ed]

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