OAN Staff Blake Wolf
1:41 PM – Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Pentagon’s acting inspector general revealed on Thursday that he will investigate whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated department policy after sending “attack plans” in the leaked Signal chat.

A memo from Inspector General Steven Stebbins revealed that the investigation will look into whether Hegseth’s discussion over Signal was in “compliance with classification and records retention requirements.”

“The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business. Additionally, we will review compliance with classification and records retention requirements,” Stebbins wrote.