U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "on the hot seat" as some in the Pentagon grow tired of his antics, a senior intelligence service official said Sunday. Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA official with 26 years in the agency behind him,

The defense secretary’s wife is a former Fox News executive. His handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a commercial messaging platform.

John Ratcliffe raged at a question about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's drinking during a hearing that was dominated by the Signalgate scandal. The post Trump CIA Chief Rages At Hearing When Asked If Hegseth Was ‘Drinking Before He Leaked Classified Information’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Given the first day of the Houthi campaign went off without a hitch, national security adviser Mike Waltz’s errant invite gaffe might have been written off as a minor glitch. Except, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth came out swinging.

In downplaying the gravity of revealing details about an imminent U.S. military operation to participants in a Signal group chat that included an accidentally invited journalist, President Donald Trump and his underlings have insisted the information was not classified.