Ex-Pentagon spokesperson on Hegseth’s plans in chat: ‘Absolutely floored’
Former Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messages in a Signal group chat about the Houthi attack have left her “absolutely floored.”
“Pete Hegseth put the sequencing of the entire operation & types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place. He put the lives of our fighter pilots at risk,” Singh said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X.
“Details like this are classified,” she added. “I am absolutely floored.”
In her post, Singh included a screenshot of a message Hegseth sent in a Signal group chat over the weekend, published Wednesday by The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was mistakenly added to the text chain.
The incident has sparked widespread shock about the top Trump administration officials using the app to message about its plans for the Houthi attack.
In the fallout of Goldberg's initial revelation about the group chat Monday, Hegseth claimed war plans were never shared in the Signal group, prompting The Atlantic to release more of the screenshots from the chat Wednesday.
The full chat includes details Goldberg’s original article did not contain, including Hegseth sending a specific timeline of the strike — ahead of it being carried out — and weapons it would use.
The Atlantic said it was releasing the messages because the Trump administration claimed no classified information had been shared over the app.
Singh, who served under the Biden administration, said she believes there will be “a fallout” from the revelations shared by Goldberg.
Democrats have quickly criticized the administration, with many calling for investigations into the incident and for Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who initiated the chat, to resign.