In addition to the “Houthi PC Small Group” chat on Signal in which Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to last month, which included senior officials in the Trump Administration, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth who used it to discuss and reveal what appears to have been classified material related to the now ongoing strike campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.

The New York Times is now reporting that Secretary Hegseth also shared details about the strikes against the Houthis, including flight schedules for F/A-18 “Super Hornets” as well as some of the same details shared in the PC Small Group, in another Signal group chat titled “Defense | Team Huddle” that included his wife Jennifer, a former producer with Fox News who does not work with the Department of Defense but has accompanied Hegseth overseas and in several sensitive meetings with foreign officials, alongside his brother Phil and his personal lawyer Tim Parlatore, both of which work in controversial roles at the Pentagon.

Unlike the other Signal chat created by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in early March, this chat was created by Hegseth in January before being confirmed as Secretary of Defense and included roughly a dozen personal and professional contacts who he was close to; with it being initial used as a forum for discussing routine administrative or scheduling information. Hegseth is said to have used his personal phone for his chat, not typically using it to discuss sensitive military operations and that it did not include other cabinet-level officials, but did include both Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick, senior advisors and confidants of Hegseth who were placed on administrative leave and fired last week from the Pentagon, after being accused of “leaking unauthorized information” pending an ongoing investigation by the DoD, yet have since proclaimed their innocence in a public statement on X.