SignalGate IG Report Is Released

The Inspector General's investigation into government officials using Signal to transmit classified information is now public. It show lots of officials (Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, JD Vance, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard) using a Signal group to chat about the military strikes against the Houthis. The only reason we found out about the chat was because they accidentally added a reporter to the group. Screenshots of the chat show them changing their usernames, and more importantly setting their messages to auto-delete. They were first set to auto-delete after one to four weeks, but in the screenshot we see Bessent changing his messages to auto-delete after only 8 hours.

All of their communications are supposed to be through secure government applications which preserve the records in accordance with the law. DHS says their employees using Signal take screenshots of their conversations and then upload them to their archive system. Nobody believes that! Their auto-delete settings confirm that they're using Signal to keep their conversations "off the books" so there's no telling what else they've been hiding.

Here's the 84-page IG Report on "SignalGate":
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/2003834916/-1/-1/1/DODIG_2026_021.PDF