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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with El Salvador’s Minister of National Defense Rene Merino Monroy at the Pentagon, last Wednesday.<\/span>Nathan Howard\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Sunday evening, The New York Times<\/em> published details of another potentially damning security scandal involving the chat app Signal and discussions of \u201cdetailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15\u2033\u2014this time centered on a group chat created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n Citing four people with knowledge of the group chat, the report describes strikingly similar details to those revealed<\/a> last month by The Atlantic<\/em> editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who earlier disclosed that he had been inadvertently added to a different Signal group chat<\/a> discussing the same Yemen war plans.<\/p>\n According to the Times<\/em>, Hegseth shared information that \u201cincluded the flight schedules for the F\/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis\u201d in a \u201cchat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.\u201d The Times<\/em> noted that Hegseth\u2019s brother, Phil, holds a job at the Pentagon, as does his lawyer, Tim Parlatore. His wife, Jennifer, has recently become notable for accompanying her husband to high-profile meetings abroad.<\/p>\n The Times <\/em>reports:<\/p>\n Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic<\/em> was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as defense secretary ,and was named \u201cDefense | Team Huddle,\u201d the people familiar with the chat said. He used his private phone, rather than his government one, to access the Signal chat.<\/p>\n The continued inclusion following Mr. Hegseth\u2019s confirmation of his wife, brother and personal lawyer, none of whom had any apparent reason to be briefed on operational details of a military operation as it was getting underway, is sure to raise further questions about his adherence to security protocols.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The report cites a US official claiming that there was no national security breach: \u201cNothing classified was ever discussed on that chat,\u201d the official said. Nonetheless, news of the second Signal group comes amid a dramatic leak probe at the Pentagon<\/a> that has resulted in the departure of top Hegseth advisors and aides. Read the full Times<\/em> report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n