DoD Inspector General Says He’s Looking Into SignalGate

The noise from SignalGate has apparently become too much to ignore. On Thursday, the Defense Department inspector general’s office announced that it will take a look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to organize, with other members of the Trump administration, a military operation in Yemen that reportedly killed at least 53 people. In a memo addressed to Hegesth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, Pentagon IG Steven Stebbins said that his office was initiating a “subject evaluation” that will seek to “determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business.” The “evaluation” comes at the behest of Republican Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Democrat Jack Reed, the ranking member of the same governing body, who seems concerned that organizing military operations via a chat app may not be ... Read full article.