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Rep.
Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) on Thursday announced he will file articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth, who is at the center of
two scandals at the
Defense Department.“This secretary has to go,” Thanedar told Fox News host Josh Breslow. “He’s incompetent. He’s, you know, violated — he has committed war crimes. He must go.” He added, “And if both parties, if Republicans are willing to look at this for the merit of this case and not just their loyalty to President Trump, this can be done.”Thanedar pointed to Hegseth’s use of the encrypted messaging app Signal with other administration officials to discuss a
pending strike on Houthi targets in Yemen as one reason to oust the Defense chief. A report from the Pentagon’s inspector general,
released publicly on Thursday, found that Hegseth put the lives of U.S. troops at risk and violated department policy through the use of the app.The Atlantic’s editor
Jeffrey Goldberg was included in the
Signal chat, along with Hegseth,
Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Office of Inspector General argued in
its report that if detailed strike plans were intercepted, the lives of U.S. troops would have been endangered.The Michigan Democrat
also cited reporting that Hegseth’s ordered military leaders to “kill everybody” in a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean. The commanding officer, Adm. Frank Bradley, carried out the
second strike in compliance with the secretary’s order even after two people were seen clinging to the boat’s wreckage.Thanedar said both controversies show the need for accountability from both parties, using the
discharge petition to force a vote on a bill to
release all of the files in convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein’s case as an example of bipartisan support.
President Trump later
signed the legislation into law.S

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