Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is again under fire for sharing sensitive intelligence about impending military operations in Yemen on the messaging app Signal. This chat, which included the flight schedules for the F-18 Hornet fighter jets involved in the mission, was created on Hegseth’s personal phone under the name “Defense | Team Huddle” and included his wife, brother, personal lawyer, and others. 

Hegseth did not deny the report in a fiery exchange with reporters on the White House lawn. Echoing his response to the March controversy over a Signal chat that accidentally included the Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, Hegseth turned the focus back on the press.