据一位知情人士透露,对国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯(Pete Hegseth)使用商业信息应用Signal的长达一个月的调查已经完成,其机密调查结果已提供给国会山。
这位人士说,国防部监察长的非机密调查结果预计将于本周晚些时候公布。
去年三月,大西洋透露了群聊信号的存在这涉及唐纳德·特朗普总统国家安全团队的几名成员,包括海格塞思、副总统JD·万斯和特朗普当时的国家安全顾问迈克·瓦尔兹。
据《大西洋月刊》报道,华尔兹无意中将其编辑添加到聊天中其中包括讨论一项即将实施的军事计划,该计划将攻击也门境内由胡塞武装分子控制的地点。
在白宫后来证实为真实的聊天中,Hegseth透露了打击将如何展开以及何时进行,包括使用F-18战斗机和战斧导弹。
“这是第一颗炸弹肯定会落下的时候,”海格塞斯在提到也门时写道,并指出3月15日袭击之前的军事时间是1415(下午2点15分)。
有消息称,黑格斯在一次单独的聊天中转述了类似的细节这包括他的妻子他不在五角大楼工作。
3月15日,军事袭击如信号聊天中所描述的那样展开,美国战机袭击了也门的数十个胡塞目标,包括导弹,receivable accounts data-entry and retrieval system 可接受的账目数据登录及修复系统和防空系统。
在回应此事时,黑格斯和他的首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔反复强调这些信息不是机密。
中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫和国家情报总监塔尔西·加巴德也作证说,聊天内容不包括机密信息。
帕内尔4月20日在X上写道:“无论他们试图用多少种方式来写这个故事,任何信号聊天中都没有保密信息。”
在4月22日对福克斯新闻频道的采访中,赫格塞斯说,这些信息是“媒体协调的非正式非机密协调”
去年春天,参议院军事委员会主席罗杰·威克和民主党领袖杰克·里德呼吁对信息处理进行调查。
“最近公布的信息在我看来非常敏感,根据我的知识,我希望它是机密的,”柳条当时说。
IG report on Hegseth's use of Signal app complete, classified findings sent to lawmakers: Source
A monthslong investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the commercial messaging app Signal is complete and its classified findings provided to Capitol Hill, according to a person familiar with the review.
The unclassified findings by the Defense Department's inspector general were expected to be released later this week, the person said.
Last March, The Atlanticrevealed the existence of the Signal group chatthat involved several members of President Donald Trump's national security team, including Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and Trump's national security adviser at the time, Mike Waltz.
In the chat, which the White House later confirmed as authentic, Hegseth revealed how a strike would unfold and when, including the use of F-18 fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles.
"THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP," Hegseth wrote at one point referencing Yemen and noting the military time of 1415 (2:15 p.m.) ahead of the March 15 strike.
Sources say Hegseth relayed similar details in a separate chatthat included his wife, who does not work at the Pentagon.
On March 15, the military attack unfolded as described in the Signal chat, with U.S. jets hitting dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen, including missiles,radarsand air defense systems.
When responding to the fallout, Hegseth and his chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, insisted repeatedly that the information was not classified.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, also testified that the chat did not include classified information.
"There was no classified information in any Signal chat, no matter how many ways they try to write the story," Parnell wrote on X on April 20.
In an April 22 interview on Fox News, Hegseth said the information was "informal unclassified coordination for media coordination."
Last spring, Sens. Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jack Reed, the top Democrat, called for the IG investigation into the handling of the information.
"The information as published recently appears to me to be of such a sensitive nature that, based on my knowledge, I would have wanted it classified,"Wicker said at the time.





