Pete Hegseth’s Signal Saga Gets Worse With Report of ‘Dirty’ Internet Line

Did you know that United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a member of Sleeper.com, a fantasy football betting site? Or that he thinks the staff of some random dental office is “amazing”? We shouldn’t know, but we do thanks to Hegseth’s messy digital habits. In a continuation of “Signalgate”, new reports indicate that not only was Hegseth’s personal phone number (which he used for Signal) easily accessible online, but he also had the app installed on Pentagon devices. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that three sources confirmed Hegseth had Signal installed on a desktop computer. To do so, Hegswerth used an unsecured “dirty” internet line to bypass security protocols. Although Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Hegseth, reportedly told the Post that Hegseth “has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer”, additional sources told the AP News that he sometimes had three office computers — including a personal one on which he installed the mes ... Read full article.