Hegseth doesn’t rule out using Signal again for military communications

Published December 6, 2025 7:02pm ET



War Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested he would use Signal again to discuss military operations, even after a recently-released report from the War Department‘s inspector general found that his use of the messaging app in March violated department policy and could have endangered service members if the information fell into the wrong hands.

Earlier this week, the War Department Office of Inspector General released its report on Signalgate, when Hegseth shared details about impending U.S. strikes on the Yemeni Houthis in a Signal group chat that included multiple other Cabinet members and one journalist, who was mistakenly added to it. The report concluded that while Hegseth can declassify any intelligence he wants, he nonetheless violated department policy by sending “sensitive, nonpublic, operational information that he determined did not require classification over the Signal chat on his personal cell phone.”

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