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Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth

Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that he received “total exoneration” in an investigative report by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General regarding a Signal group chat about a military attack in Yemen. But the report contradicts that assessment, concluding that Hegseth’s messages “created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.”