Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth teilte den Angriffsdetails des Jemen im zweiten Signal -Chat, der seine Frau und seinen Bruder umfasste

As per [original article](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-signal-second-chat-yemen-wife-b2736476.html) 📰:

– Defense secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of an upcoming military strike against the Houthi group in Yemen in a second Signal chat, which included his own wife and brother, [according to The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html).

The paper says details, including flight schedules for the warplanes involved, were shared in the group chat on March 15.

The claims follow shock revelations last month that the upcoming strike was discussed by senior administration figures, including Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz on Signal, a commercial messaging up, instead of using the high-security communications systems available to them.

The story came to light because Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, had accidentally been added to the chat

The new reporting claims that Hegseth’s wife Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, was included on a second Signal group chat about the Yemen attack, along with his brother Phil.

Jennifer Hegseth has accompanied her husband on official trips and Phil Hegseth works for the Department of Defense, but it was not clear why either of them might have been included in the planning for the airstrikes.

The New York Times also reports that Pete Hegseth’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, was included in the group chat. The paper cites four people with knowledge of the chat for its reporting.

A U.S. official declined to comment when approached by the newspaper as to whether Hegseth shared detailed attack plans, but said there was “no national security breach.”

“The truth is that there is an informal group chat that started before confirmation of his closest advisers,” the official told the Times. “Nothing classified was ever discussed on that chat.”

The Independent has contacted the Pentagon for comment.

Hegseth created the Signal group named “Defense | Team Huddle” and was reportedly posting in it approximately the same time he shared the same details in the Signal group created by Waltz, people familiar with the group chat told the Times.

The defense secretary also used his personal phone to access the Signal chat, according to the newspaper.

In the days before the Yemen attack, aides reportedly warned Hegseth not to use the “Defense | Team Huddle” group chat to discuss any sensitive operational details. He was also “encouraged” to move discussions from his personal device to his government phone. “But Mr. Hegseth never made the transition,” the Times notes, citing people familiar with the Signal chat.

The chat included Hegseth’s senior advisers, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick, according to the Times, who were recently fired after being accused of leaking unauthorized information. The pair denied the accusations in a joint statement posted on social media over the weekend.

Other members of the chat, in addition to Hegseth’s wife and brother, “were not officials with any apparent need to be given real-time information on details of the operation,” according to the outlet.

That’s an interesting reading of the terms ‚classified‘ and ‚top secret.‘

That’s what they call foreplay in the Hegseth household.

OPSEC is paramount!

huh, who could of known that a weekend Fox host wouldn’t be good at this

He was just explaining why he was out until 4am and his brother was helping him cover. Don’t sell out a buddy like that.

oh dear, what criminal consequences will come of this….

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, fired this Nazi.

I may have been on that thread too.

Just a reminder we pay this guy’s salary. Don’t forget to vote in the midterm.

So he’S drunk texting war plans?

Who knew hiring an outrage television personality type who struggled with alcoholism could be capable of such gross incompetence?

If your average federal employee did this, would it be cool? Like standard procedure, nice work?

The level of incompetance is stagering.

Come on MAGA. You know this is bad. You genuinely do.

It’s gone beyond policy and ideology hasn’t it? Isn’t this a massively careless and negligent operational security breach? Imagine some enemy knowing that they just need to tap the unsecured personal devices of the Secretary’s *brother and wife?!*

I don’t care if you think he deserves punishment or not. But isn’t this just really dangerous? Can you see what we’ve been trying to say through all the culture war shit? That this administration doesn’t know what they’re doing?

We should agree that this isn’t right, and start looking for some kind of compromise.

17D chess. If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

Coincidentally, Hegseth is a lot like Zapp Brannigan.

Sending out drunken texts with classified information deserves prison time but in our new world it’s a let everyone know I got power screw up that goes responsibility free.

This just reeks of Hegseth flexing to his brother and wife, showing off “how important” he is by including them in a chat they should have **nothing to do with** at all. Why do they need to know this information? What are they going to contribute to the conversation?

Hegseth is a total asshole.

On the cuckservative sub, when it happened the first time they kept saying that it was some staffer that added everyone and that staffer used Hegseths phone to do it and made an error. Now this wild staffer is adding family members to the group chat.

There has never been a group that hates America more than these fools.

The line between incompetence and malice is almost indiscernible.

Wow, who could have predicted that putting a drunkard with anger management issues in charge of the military might create problems?

Just imagine the kind of conversations in signal they REAAAALLY don’t want us to know about. How casually they speak in the first chat just confirms this is a regular occurrence.