White House Rejects NY Times Report on Hegseth: 'Non-story' Fueled by 'Leakers'

The White House lashed out at The New York Times report of a second Signal messaging chat created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that included his wife and brother and in which he shared details of a March military airstrike against Yemen's Houthi terrorists, insisting that no classified information was shared.

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said that "no matter how many times the legacy media tries to resurrect the same non-story, they can't change the fact that no classified information was shared."

She added "recently fired 'leakers' are continuing to misrepresent the truth to soothe their shattered egos and undermine the president's agenda, but the administration will continue to hold them accountable."

The second chat on Signal — which is a commercially available app not authorized to be used to communicate sensitive or classified national defense information — had 13 people in the group that included Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, who is a former Fox News producer, and his brother Phil Hegseth, who was hired at the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser, according to The New York Times. Both have traveled with the defense secretary and attended high-level meetings.

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