Greg Myrie

The Americans defeated the group, but remnants still carry out periodic attacks.

U.S.

forces have remained in Syria to guard against a resurgence of ISIS.

Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.

The lengthy report by the inspector general says Secretary Hegseth, quote, created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in potential harm to U.S.

pilots.

Back in March, Hegseth used the publicly available signal messaging app to share detailed information on a U.S.

airstrike against Houthi forces in Yemen.

The information Hegseth received from the general overseeing the operation was marked secret.

Hegseth then shared the contents, which included, quote, strike times of manned U.S.

aircraft over hostile territory approximately two to four hours before the execution of those strikes.

Hegseth responded to the report on X, saying, total exoneration, case closed.

Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington.

He was in contact with essentially all top national security officials, the CIA director, director of national intelligence, the national security advisor, the secretary of state.

And as we noted, what none of them knew was that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, was inadvertently included and was reading the messages as well.

Hi, Michelle.

Yeah, this report comes from the Pentagon's inspector general who says Hegseth risked endangering U.S.

troops by using the Signal messaging app to share military plans before the first attack in Yemen.

Now, NPR has not seen the report, but we've been in touch with people who have, and they've described it on condition of anonymity.

The report says Hegseth shared information labeled secret as he described details of the U.S.