Here's how the incident played out earlier this month, based on reporting from The Atlantic and from the wire service Reuters.

Standards and accountability are missing in action with the Republican Party and Trump Administration. The recent security ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday fended off a reporter’s questions about a leaked Signal chat group about forthcoming strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.

A Senate hearing spotlighted the defense secretary’s decision to share sensitive information on a messenger app generally not ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe fired back at a suggestion that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drunk when texting war strike plans on Signal. Democratic Congressman Jimmy Gomez suggested ...

The officials with decades of experience said it was unprecedented to have sensitive deliberations outside secure government communications systems.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe blasted a California Democrat Wednesday for asking him "whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had been drinking before he leaked classified information" in a Signal ...

In downplaying the gravity of disclosing details about an imminent U.S. military operation to participants in a Signal group chat that included an ...

Atlantic publishes attack plan details after Trump, top officials deny classified information was shared in group chat ...

Pete Hegseth was not drunk when he discussed plans to bomb Yemen in a group chat which included a journalist, the director of the CIA has said. John Ratcliffe defended the defence secretary after ...

questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s drinking habits sparked ... The answer is, no,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe responded when asked the same question. Gomez argued the question ...

Jimmy Gomez delivered a low blow Wednesday by questioning whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... of Secretary Hegseth’s personal habits,” she replied. Seated next to her, CIA director ...