The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key national security officials to discuss military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month,

The Acting Inspector General (IG) of the US Department of Defence (Pentagon) will probe Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth's use of Signal in a group chat with other national security officials to discuss military actions against the Houthis.

The Pentagon’s watchdog has launched a probe into Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss Yemen airstrikes. The move follows a leaked group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief.