Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, responded to the media of establishments that meets the signal signal against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth, pointing out that it is “another old story” that is “back of the dead.”
In an X publication, Parnell sharply criticized he New York Times For a report that says that Hegseeth had discussed military attacks against the hutis with his wife, brother and lawyer. Parnell pointed out that the New York Times, “And all other false news” repeating their garbage “are based” only on the words of the people who were fired this week. “
“Another day, another old story, back from the dead,” Parnell wrote. “The media that hate Trump are still obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump’s agenda. This time, the New York Times, and all other false news that repeats his garbage, are taking enthusiastically the complaints of former discontent employees such as the only sources of his article.”
“They trusted only the words of the people who were fired this week and seem to have a reason to sabotage the secretary and the president’s agenda,” Parnell continued. “There was no information classified in any signal chat, no matter how many ways in which they try to write the story. What is true is that the office of the Secretary of Defense continues to be stronger and more efficient to execute the agenda of President Trump. We have already achieved both for the US warrior, and we never go back.”
Parnell’s statement occurs after “four people with knowledge of the chat” told him to New York Times That Hegesh “essentially” shared the “same attack plans” that he had shared with several Trump administration officials in a separate signal chat, with respect to military attacks in the hutis.
According to the reports, the second signal chat included Hegseeth’s wife, Jennifer, his brother Phil and lawyer Tim Parlatore. Hegseeth’s brother and Parlatore “both have work in the Pentagon,” according to the exit.
According to the exit, the “information that Mr. Hegseeth shared” was related to “the flight schedules for the Hornets F/A-18”:
Some of these people said that the information that Mr. Hegseeth shared in the signal chat included the flight schedules for the Hornets F/A-18 aimed at the Houthis I Yemen-isentyly the same attack plans that he shared in a separate signal chat on the same day as erroneously.
According to reports, the signal chat between Hegseth, his wife, his brother and the lawyer were “created by Mr. Hegseth”, and, according to the reports, also included “around a dozen other people of” hegseth “personal and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, and it was called” Defense | Huddle “”, sources told outlet:
Unlike the chat in which the Atlantic was included by mistake, the recently revealed was created by Mr. Hegseeth. He included his wife and on a boxes of other people from his person and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, and was appointed “Defense | Huddle team,” said the family with the chat. He used his private phone, instead of his government, to access the signal chat.
“Two of the familiar people” with the second signal chat told him at the exit that Hegseeth had created the chat “as a forum to discuss administrative or routine programming information.” According to the reports, the people included in the group Chat were “on a boxes of the main aid of Mr. Hegseeth, including Joe Kasper, the chief of Cabinet of Mr. Hegseeth” and Parnell.
CNN also reported that “three people familiar with the chat” told the outlet that Initial Hegseth established the second signal chat “doing the confirmation audience process as a way for Hegesh’s closest allies to establish themselves.” However, Hegseeth, according to reports, “continued using the chat, which was on his personal phone”:
But Hegesh continued using the chat, which was on his personal phone, to communicate with them after he was confirmed, people said. Similar to the first signal chat, which was revealed by the Atlantic after its editor was included by error by the national security advisor Mike Waltz, the military plans that Hegseeth shared in the second signal said that people against the hutis.
CNN reports and New York Times Come after AtlanticThe chief editor of Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a signal chat entitled “Houthi PC Small Group” by national security advisor Michael Waltz. Several members of the signal chat included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseeth and others.
In an article of March 24, Goldberg shared how several members of the group chat had a round trip discussion, days before launching military attacks on Hutíes in Yemen.
Goldberg points out in his article that on Saturday, March 15, Hegseeth shared information with the group that “contained operational details of fortuitous attacks on Yemen, including information on objectives, weapons that the United States would be deployed and security attacks:
The only person who responded to Hegseeth’s update was the person identified as vice president. “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote. (Two other users added prayer emoji later).
According to the text Leghy Hegseeth, the first detonations in Yemen would feel two hours, therefore, at 1:45 pm east time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this signal chat were real, I reasoned, Houthi’s objectives would soon be the bed with bombs. Around 1:55, I checked X and looked in Yemen. Then explosions were heard in Sanaa, the capital city.
In another article, the Atlantic He shared the content of the message Hegseeth had shared in the signal chat:
At 11:44 am east time, Hegseeth published in the chat, in all limits, “equipment update”: “
The text below this began: “Time now (1144et): the weather is favorable. I just confirmed with CentoCome, we are a launch of the mission.” Centcom, or central command, is the army combatant command for the Middle East. Hegseeth’s text continues:
- “1215et: F-18s launch (first strike package)”
- “1345: ‘The first F-18 Strike Window trigger begins (Target Terrorist is its known location, so it should be in time, at the same time, Strike Drones the launch (MQ-9S)”
The article added that Hegseth’s message continued:
- “1410: More F-18 launch (2nd strike package)”
- “1415: Strike drones in the objective (it is when the first pumps will definitely fall, pending objectives ‘based on the trigger’ previous)”
- “1536 F-18 2nd Strike begins, just as Tomahawks, based in the sea, released.”
- “More to follow (per timeline)”
- “We are currently clean in OPSEC” – IS, operational security.
- “Godspeed to our warriors.”
Kristina Wong of Breitbart News reported that several officials of the Trump administration such as Waltz and the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responded to the AtlanticThe statements that there were “war plans” discussed in the signal chat, pointing out that locations or sources were not included.
“There are no locations. Without sources and methods”, Waltz written In a publication on X of March 26. “Foreign partners had not been notified that foreign partners had been notified that strikes were immimensions. In a nutshell: President Trump is protecting the United States and our interests.”
“So let me clarify this,” Hegseeth written In a publication about X. “The Atlantic launched the so -called ‘war plans’ and those ‘plans’ include: without names. Without objectives. Without locations. Without units. Without routes. Without sources. Without methods. And without classified information. That is.” “
Following the signal chat, several Democrats such as Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have suggested that President Donald Trump should fire Hegseeth, if he does not give up. In an interview with CNN, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suggested that Hegseth and Waltz “should no longer be in government.”