According to reports from the Associated Press and other US media, the Pentagon Supervision Department will review the use of U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegsey's application for encrypted messaging service Signal on the "group chat leak" incident.

Strictly speaking, US Secretary of Defense Hegsey is not the "first person responsible" for the "group chat leak" incident.

Strictly speaking, US Secretary of Defense Hegsey is not the "first person responsible" for the "group chat leak" incident.

The American magazine Atlantic magazine published an article on March 24 saying that senior U.S. national security officials added the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a confidential group chat about the fight against the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, who learned about the air strike plan two hours before the US military's operation.

The article said that Hegsesth released a combat plan in the group chat involving information such as weapon configuration, target attacks and timing. However, Hegsesth denied this.

The Associated Press cites a notice letter from Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense Steven Stebbins to Hegseyth. The letter said, “The purpose of this review is to determine whether the Secretary of Defense and other Department of Defense personnel are in compliance with the Department of Defense’s policies and procedures when using commercial messaging applications in official activities.”

The letter shows that the review was carried out at the request of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense "will assess compliance with the classification and record keeping of confidential information."

Regarding the "group chat leak" incident, the Trump administration has repeatedly stated that the group chat does not involve confidential information. But some U.S. Congressmen and intelligence officials believe that the relevant information is highly sensitive and call for a comprehensive investigation into the incident.

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