It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon’s inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins’ eight-month-long investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not comply with DoD policies by “using a nonapproved commercially available messaging application to send nonpublic DoD information.”

It also said that he risked potential compromise of “sensitive DoD information” as a result, but only recommended a review of classification procedures, and said that another report recommended “corrective actions” that, if implemented and adhered to, would

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