{"id":37,"date":"2025-04-21T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:01:47","slug":"hegseth-shared-detailed-military-plans-in-second-signal-chat-that-included-his-wife-and-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/hegseth-shared-detailed-military-plans-in-second-signal-chat-that-included-his-wife-and-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth shared detailed military plans in second Signal chat that included his wife and brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/24\/politics\/yemen-strikes-journalist-cabinet-signal-chat\/index.html\">Signal group chat<\/a>, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the chat told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chat was set up during Hegseth\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/14\/politics\/hegseth-confirmation-hearing-defense-secretary\/index.html\">tumultuous confirmation hearing<\/a>&nbsp;process as a way for his closest allies to strategize, two of the people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth continued using the chat, which had more than a dozen people in it, to communicate after he was confirmed, the people said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revelation comes as some of Hegseth\u2019s closest advisers have begun sounding the alarm about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/27\/politics\/hegseth-signal-group-chat-concerns-judgement\/index.html\">secretary\u2019s judgment<\/a>, including his former press secretary, John Ullyot, and three former senior officials Hegseth&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-presidency-04-19-25#cm9oune600000356t7ji0kfnl\">fired last week<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 his top adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, who served as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartpredicts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}