Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source told Reuters Sunday.
<p>WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
</p><p>The revelations of a second Signal chat raise more questions about Hegseth's use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details and come at a particularly delicate moment for him, with senior officials ousted from the Pentagon last week as part of an <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/51297991/ousted-pentagon-officials-question-leak-investigation-claims" rel="follow" target="_blank">internal leak</a> investigation.</p><p>In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack similar to those revealed last month by the Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/51282073/white-house-mistakenly-shares-yemen-war-plans-with-a-journalist-at-the-atlantic" rel="follow" target="_blank">chat</a> on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.</p><p>The person familiar with the matter, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said the second chat included about a dozen people and was created during his confirmation proce
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