On April 3, the Acting Department of Defense inspector general signed a memo to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, notifying the secretary that, “we are initiating” an “Evaluation of Secretary of Defense’s Reported Use of a Commercially Available Messaging Application for Official Business.”
According to the acting DoD IG memo, which somebody released to the press, “We are conducting this evaluation in response to a March 26, 2025 letter I received from the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting that I conduct an inquiry into recent public reporting on the Secretary of Defense’s use of an unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to military actions in Yemen in March 2025.”
Observations of this former DoD IG:
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