Gafa or unconsciousness of the head of the Pentagon

The head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, sent detailed information about American attacks in Yemen to his wife, brother and lawyer, announces New York Times .

According to the publication, on March 15, Hegseth posted a flight aircraft flight program F/A -18 Hornet who hit the positions of the YEMENI houti from the Rebel Allah movement, in a discussion with his wife Jennifer, who is not employed at the Pentagon, as well as his brother Phil and his personal lawyer, who works in the military department.

As the publication points out, as opposed to the chat involving American administration officials in Sist, who became the subject of scandal When the chief editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, It was added to it, the second conversation was created by the head of the personal Pentagon and included, in addition to his wife, about 10 people in Hegseth’s intimate circle, including two officials who were « suspended, defended and defended. » Moreover, the head of the US military department used his personal phone, not the one at work, to communicate in the chat.

According to the newspaper, the chat usually discusses information about organizational and administrative issues.

Signal scandal

At the beginning of April, the office of the inspector general of the Pentagon has launched an investigation into the Signal Data Data on US military attacks in Yemen. The purpose of the analysis, said the office, was to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other Pentagon officials complied with the rules and procedures regarding the use of commercial messenger applications for professional purposes.

Goldberg He published An article on March 24, in which he reported that on March 11 he received a request for connection to the Signal messenger from a user with the nickname Mike Waltz (US National Security Advisor). Two days later, the journalist received a notification that he was added to a group chat in which the US administration members were discussing strikes in Yemen. According to the journalist, on March 15, a user named Pete Hegseth posted a message with details about future strikes and the estimated date of the operation of the operation, which, according to Goldberg, coincided with the first posts on social networks. On March 15, the United States, on the order of President Donald Trump, began to launch massive strokes against Houthi targets, which controls about one third of the Yemmen.

The US Democratic Party has considered Signal Data to drain a major failure of the Trump Republican Administration. There are requests in the US Congress and the American expert community, including for the dismissal of Waltz and other members of the presidential team.