US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth could have endangered troops' safety when he used an unsecured app to discuss a planned attack on militants in Yemen, according to a report from the Pentagon's inspector general, an internal watchdog.
The details of the March attack were discussed on the commercial Signal app, and were first revealed after a journalist was mistakenly added to the group chat.
Using his personal device, Hegseth shared information from a classified report, but the inspector general did not determine if Hegseth had declassified it first.
The inspector general's office provided a classified copy of its report to Congress on Tuesday. A public version is expected later this week.
Some of the findings in the classified copy, though, were shared with US media on Wednesday, including with CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
