英语：皮特·赫格塞斯在第二次 Signal 聊天中分享了也门袭击细节

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Source: Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat – report | Trump administration | The Guardian

《纽约时报》周日报道，在美国3月对也门发动军事打击之前，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯向他自己创建的Signal私人群聊发送了有关袭击计划的详细信息，该群聊包括他的妻子、兄弟和大约十几个其他人。《卫报》已独立证实了赫格塞斯自己的私人群聊的存在。知情人士向《纽约时报》透露，赫格塞斯向其私人助理的私人群发送了一些相同的信息，包括将袭击也门胡塞叛军目标的F/A-18“大黄蜂”战斗机的飞行时间表，他还与国家安全顾问迈克·沃尔兹创建的另一个由高级官员组成的Signal群分享了这些信息。上个月，被沃尔兹意外加到群里的《大西洋月刊》记者杰弗里·戈德堡公开了沃尔兹创建的 Signal 群聊。赫格塞斯在该群聊中向特朗普政府其他官员透露了详细的攻击计划。知情人士向《纽约时报》透露，赫格塞斯还在第二个 Signal 群聊中分享了这些计划，这可能会加剧人们对这位前福克斯周末节目主播管理五角大楼能力的批评。五角大楼是一个事关全球生死的庞大组织。《纽约时报》报道，赫格塞斯的两名高级顾问——丹·考德威尔和达林·塞尔尼克——也参与了该群聊，他们上周因被控泄露未经授权的信息而被解雇。此前，赫格塞斯曾因邀请妻子、前福克斯新闻制片人詹妮弗参加与外国领导人的敏感会晤而受到批评，其中包括与英国军方领导人讨论乌克兰战争。国防部长的弟弟菲尔·赫格塞斯被聘为五角大楼高级顾问，并担任国防部与国土安全部的联络人。Before the US launched military strikes on Yemen in March, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he created himself, which included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

The Guardian has independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.

According to unnamed sources familiar with the chat who spoke to the Times, Hegseth sent the private group of his personal associates some of the same information, including the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets that would strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, that he also shared with another Signal group of top officials that was created by Mike Waltz, the national security adviser.

The existence of the Signal group chat created by Waltz, in which detailed attack plans were divulged by Hegseth to other Trump administration officials on the private messaging app, was made public last month by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who had been accidentally added to the group by Waltz.

The fact that Hegseth also shared the plans in a second Signal group chat, according to “people familiar with the matter” who spoke to the Times, is likely to add to growing criticism of the former Fox weekend anchor’s ability to manage the Pentagon, a massive organization which operates in matters of life and death around the globe.

According to the Times, the private chat also included two senior advisers to Hegseth – Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick – who were fired last week after being accused of leaking unauthorized information.

Hegseth has previously been criticized for including his wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, in sensitive meetings with foreign leaders, including a discussion of the war in Ukraine with British military leaders. Phil Hegseth, the secretary’s younger brother, was hired as a senior Pentagon adviser and is the defense department’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.