A US Senator from Iowa is sharing his thoughts on the two apparent incidents where the top military official shared information in unsecured means.

Sources say US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently shared military information with his wife, brother and his lawyer in mid-April from his personal cell phone. Prior to that, sources report that Hegseth used an unsecured communication app, Signal, and wrote about military airstrikes on Yemen, as the attack was happening, which was allegedly leaked to a journalist. 

US Senator Chuck Grassley tells Raccoon Valley Radio that without knowing the exact details of each incident, he questions why anything needed to be said in either case.

“I just don’t understand why you’d be talking about it in the first place and I don’t understand why you’d have non-military people involved in the conversation. Now, that’s beside the point of whether or not there was any secret information that shouldn’t have been disposed, even if it was totally not affecting our national security, and it could be talked about publicly. Why would you want to be talking about it while the war is going on and why would you need your family there? I just don’t understand it.”   

Despite that, Grassley continues to follow President Donald Trump’s lead when it comes to Hegseth. 

“The President is standing by Hegseth and I believe, with what I know now, I wouldn’t call for any resignation like some of my colleagues have. I think the President is entitled to have a Secretary of Defense that he wants, and I happen to agree with the President that there needs to be a lot of changes in the (US) Defense Department and he’s picked Hegseth to do it.” 

Grassley adds that if Hegseth had a good explanation for why he shared military information with non-military people, he would listen to that.