This week, the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense released a report that found Secretary Pete Hegseth could have put U.S. troops and national security at risk with messages sent in a Signal chat about strikes in Yemen. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss what the report may mean for Hegseth, and more.
In response to the report, the defense secretary and his spokesman, Sean Parnell, denied the findings: “The Inspector General review is a TOTAL exoneration of Secretary Hegseth,” Parnell wrote on X earlier this week. “The bottom line is the official leadership of the Department of Defense is at war with reality,” Susan Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker, said last night. The question that remains unanswered, Glasser added, is: “Where is the oversight and accountability?”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; and Nancy Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Watch the full episode here.
