Inspector General DOD says he is looking at Signalgate

The noise of Signalgate seems too much to ignore. On Thursday, the Office of the Ministry of Defense inspector announced that it will take a look at the Defense Minister Beit Higseth to refer to an organization, with other members of the Trump administration, a military operation in Yemen stating reports. At least 53 people were killed.

In a note directed at Hegrass and Deputy Minister of Defense Steve Vinci, Pentagon Aeg Stephen Steps said that his office was starting an “objective evaluation” seeking to “determine the extent of Defense Minister and other DOD employees of the Ministry of Defense policies and procedures to use the commercial messaging application.”

The “evaluation” comes at the request of the Republican Roger Wekir, head of the Armed Services Committee in the Senate, and Democrat Jacques Reed, a member of the arrangement in the same ruling body, who seems concerned that organizing military operations through the application of chat may not be the best idea. Perhaps they were not happy to know that, according to The latest Politio reportTrump’s national security team Prepare at least 20 group chat Referring to communicating about various foreign policy initiatives, including military operations.

Of course, this investigation will not happen if the National Security Adviser Mike Walz is not wrongly The Atlantic Editor -in -chief, Jeffrey Goldberg To the group chat where many Trump officials were talking about an attack on Yemen. Goldberg announced the fact that he was included in the group, which led to one of the most stupid news courses in Trump’s second term (no small achievement!) In which Higseth and Waltz tried to reduce the seriousness of the war plans to apply a chat for saying things like Goldberg.Absorb“Conversation.

But now after it has been announced, as well as some other suspicious practices in the Ministry of Defense led by Higseth, which seems to be doing a lot of communication in places that should not-not only above the signal It is said on Gmail, as well.

This is usually reprehensible for several reasons, the first and above all is that it represents a danger to national security – Message that the Pentagon is a ladder Just days before the Trump team launched the Yemeni group chat. Then there are general transparency regulations that require departments to do A certain amount of saving records When it comes to this type of things, which also ends with services such as signal.

It will be interesting to see the type of conclusion that IG comes to – assuming that it continues for a long time to complete it, given Trump A tendency to overthrow the assistant generals.