Using a personal phone and Signal for official business violated DoDI 8170.01. Nonpublic DoD information cannot be sent over non-DoD systems, regardless of classification status.

He also failed to preserve the Signal messages as required by law. Messages auto-deleted. Record-retention obligations were not met. IG states the transmission created avoidable operational risk by exposing strike-timing and aircraft-movement data over an unapproved channel to uncleared recipients.

Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.

A custom setup was built so he could access his personal phone from inside his secure Pentagon office. IG couldn’t confirm it met security requirements.

IG’s bottom line: clear policy violations, clear OPSEC risk, no criminal referral, and no penalty. The systemic failures are acknowledged, but responsibility is diffused into training and process fixes.

I'm 100% on board with shunning campists, though it probably gets rendered meaningless almost immediately if for whatever reason there's a big Middle East and Latin America exception but for the center-left.

Yeah man also before we moved out I got fbi knock was freaking out!!!
Come to find out it was for a neighbor who was murdered and they found his dong and balls in the doggy doodoo bag collector and we’re asking if anyone knew the couple!! I MOVED LIKE 3 days later got jazzy out of there like WHAT