Pentagon inspector general reviewing whether staffers were asked to delete Hegseth’s Signal messages: Report

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The office of the Pentagon’s inspector general is reportedly looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete his infamous Signal messages about the then-impending U.S. military operations in Yemen.

The DOD IG announced on April 3 it would “conduct an inquiry” into Hegseth’s “use of an unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to military actions in Yemen in March 2025.”

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