{"id":527532,"date":"2025-04-22T02:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/an\/?p=527532"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:17:54","slug":"signalgate-new-damning-revelations-for-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/signalgate-new-damning-revelations-for-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Signalgate&#8221;: new damning revelations for Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Trump administration is once again at the center of controversy. This time, the spotlight is on Pete Hegseth, current Secretary of Defense and a close ally of Donald Trump. According to an investigation by <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Hegseth allegedly shared classified military information via the encrypted messaging app Signal with several members of his personal circle\u2014a move intelligence experts view as highly concerning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the recipients of these messages were his wife, his brother, and his personal attorney\u2014none of whom held the required &#8220;Top Secret&#8221; security clearance. The messages reportedly included sensitive details about airstrikes targeting Houthi militias in Yemen. These revelations come as Hegseth is already under internal investigation for a previous breach that occurred a month earlier, when a journalist was accidentally added to a confidential group chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> confirms that the Pentagon has launched a formal investigation. Inside the Department of Defense, tensions are running high. A former Pentagon spokesperson described the situation to <em>Politico<\/em> as a \u201cmonth from hell\u201d marked by \u201ctotal chaos\u201d at the highest levels of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump, for his part, continues to stand by his Defense Secretary for now. However, this scandal\u2014already dubbed \u201cSignalgate\u201d\u2014could further weaken the inner circle of the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is once again at the center of controversy. This time, the spotlight is on Pete Hegseth, current Secretary of Defense and a close ally of Donald Trump. According to an investigation by The New York Times, Hegseth allegedly shared classified military information via the encrypted messaging app Signal with several members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527532"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527532"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}