Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled a Pentagon inspector general’s probe into the use of the Signal app to share military plans “a sham, conducted in bad faith and with extreme bias,” according to a department spokesman.
In a New York Times story on Tuesday, Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell was quoted describing the IG’s investigation as “a political witch hunt by Biden administration holdovers.”
Parnell added that Hegseth provided the IG with a statement “which points out why this entire exercise is a sham, conducted in bad faith and with extreme bias.”
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