A New York Times report says U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared attack plans on the commercially available chat app Signal, which is not cleared for classified government information. It's the second such leak of war plans on the chat app in recent months.
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00:00U.S. attack on Iran backed Houthi rebels to his family and his lawyer, according to a New York
00:06Times report. Hexeth shared the information through the chat app Signal, which is not cleared
00:12for classified U.S. government communication. It's the second such leak on Signal reported in
00:17recent months. In March, a journalist was added to a chat group on the app where plans for that
00:23same attack were shared. Information in the leak included weapons used in the strike and a timeline
00:29of the attack.