Reports will be made after the defense chief attracted scrutiny last month on discussions about the US military plan in another group chat.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses shared details about the planned bombing raid on Yemen in a second signal group chat, including his wife, brother and personal lawyers, US media reports.
The report came after Hegseth last month when Hegseth revealed that the editor-in-chief of Atlantic Magazine revealed that journalists had shared details about the upcoming airstrikes of Houthi Rebels in a signal group chat that was accidentally added.
Hegseth’s discussion in the second group chat also included a planned strike regarding Yemen’s Houthi target.
Information shared by Hegses in the second chat included “F/A-18 Hornets flight schedule targeting Yemen’s Houtis.”
Hegseth set up a second group chat before confirmation as Secretary of Defense to coordinate with members of his personal and professional inner circle, the outlet said.
Hegses’ brother Phil and his personal attorney, Tim Palatoa, are both employed at the Department of Defense, but his wife, former Fox news producer, are not.
In response to an investigation from Al Jazeera, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called the report “an old story – from death.”
“The media that hates Trump continues to be obsessed with destroying those who have committed to the President (Donald’s) agenda,” Parnell said in a statement.
“This time, the New York Times, and all the other fake news that repeats the garbage, are enthusiastically taking the complaints of dissatisfied former employees as the only source of the article. They were fired this week and appear to have the motivation to sabotage the secretary and presidential agenda.”
Parnell said that the information classified in signal chats has not been shared.
“The truth is that the Secretary of Defense Office continues to be stronger and more efficient at enforcing President Trump’s agenda. We have already achieved a lot for American fighters and will never step back,” he said.
Disclosures of military information in the first signal group chat, including Hegseth, US Vice President JD Vance and national security adviser Michael Waltz, among other officials in the Trump administration, are currently being investigated by representative Pentagon inspectors.
The latest debate, including Hegseth’s leadership, follows a week-long shift in personnel at the Pentagon.
Four members of Hegses’ inner circle, including his former spokesman John Uriott, were deleted last week amid an expanded probe to leaking information.
On Sunday, Uritt said the Pentagon was in “disturbance” and “complete confusion” under the leadership of the defense chief.
“Dysfunction is a major distraction for the president right now. He deserves better from a senior leader,” Uriot wrote in an opinion piece published by Politico Magazine.
Urry announced his resignation Wednesday following the departure of Colin Carroll, deputy Defense Secretary of State for Staff, Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg. Darrin Selnick, Deputy Chief of Staff of Hegses. and Dan Caldwell, one of Heggs’s close aides.
In a statement Sunday, Carol, Selnick and Caldwell said they were vilified and “bassed attacks” prior to their firing.
“All three of us served our country in honor. For the two of us, this included deployment to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And based on our collective services, we understood the importance of information security and worked to protect it every day,” the three men said in a statement.
“At this point, it has not yet been said that we have been investigated accurately, whether there is still an active investigation or even an actual investigation of a ‘leak’ from the start. ”