Hegseth earlier this year effectively “cloned” the Signal app on his personal cellphone to his computer as a way to get around blocks on the messaging app in classified areas, and to message ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal, a commercially available messaging app, on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, said three people familiar with the matter ...

“Signal is the only app that has taken steps to hide users’ profiles, contacts, group metadata, and even message sender information,” researchers wrote in 2023 report from Tech Policy Press ...

When emailed by The Hill, Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell denied the Signal usage on Hegseth’s computer. “The Secretary of Defense’s use of communications systems and channels is ...

Hegseth’s decision earlier this year to install Signal on a desktop computer in the Pentagon was a work-around that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space, where his cellphone and other ...