Mark Greenblatt was one of the government’s inspector generals—the watchdogs who combat waste, fraud, and abuse. He was made IG of the Interior Department in January 2019 by Donald Trump, then fired by the same man in January 2025. Here he explains what is in the Pete Hegseth report, why Hegseth’s version sounds shifty, and why it took raw guts by Pentagon IG Steven Stebbins to tell the truth about the secretary of defense.

The Defense Department Office of Inspector General is expected to issue its report Thursday on the so-called Signalgate incident in which Secretary Pete Hegseth shared highly sensitive attack plans on the texting app Signal.

The DOD OIG will find that Hegseth should not have used Signal, that he “risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives,” and that he shared highly sensitive information with unauthorized individuals and failed to preserve those communications, as required, according to CNN. The DOD OIG report also finds that Hegseth violated Defense Department policies by using his........

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