A widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging chat in March that included details of a planned airstrike in Yemen against Houthi fighters, said a source familiar with the report.
The Signal chat was disclosed after a reporter for the Atlantic was added as a member. It also included JD Vance; the CIA director, John Ratcliffe; and the then national security adviser, Mike Waltz. The report did not examine the conduct of those officials, since they do not work at the Department of Defense.
