Second Hegseth Advisor Booted From Pentagon Amid Leak Probe
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A second Defense Department official — this time the Pentagon’s Deputy Chief of Staff — has been relieved of duty and placed on administrative leave amid a probe into “unauthorized disclosures” regarding key figures within the department.
Darin Selnick, DoD deputy chief of staff, was reportedly suspended and escorted from the Pentagon just one day after Dan Caldwell, an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was also removed from the building under suspicion that he was involved in leaking information. Both Selnick and Caldwell have previously worked with Hegseth at a veterans group the defense secretary headed, Concerned Veterans for America.
Aninvestigationintothematterwasannouncedlastmonth,citing“recentunauthorizeddisclosuresofnationalsecurityinformation,”which,accordingtoreports,includedrevealingdetailsregardingbillionaireElonMusk’svisittothePentagonandthedefensesecretary’srecenttriptoPanama.
DODChiefofStaffJoeKaspersaidwhentheprobewasannounced,“Theuseofpolygraphsintheexecutionofthisinvestigationwillbe
