The acting Inspector General for the Pentagon, Steven Stebbins, has announced an investigation into Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth’s use of the signal app to discuss potentially classified information with other members of the US President Donald Trump cabinet last month.

Newsweek has reproduced all the Signal group messages that were published by The Atlantic, either by being written out by Goldberg or included in the article as screenshots. It is unclear what proportion of the messages The Atlantic chose to make public, and some details were kept secret for security reasons.

The full text of the group chat that has Washington in an uproar. What is ‘Signalgate?’ Washington is abuzz with “Signalgate,” the furor over a string of text messages from top members of the Trump administration discussing plans of a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app.

The Pentagon's Inspector General's office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified commercial texting application to coordinate the March 15 launch of U.

The independent watchdog said it would assess whether the defense secretary followed department policies when he shared military strike plans in a group chat.

Defence chief Pete Hegseth and others coordinated March 15 US military strikes in messaging app conversation that included journalist.