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| Top Pete Hegseth adviser Dan Caldwell ‘escorted' out of Pentagon ‐ placed on leave after he's implicated in leak probe | |
| 2025-04-16 | |
| [NY Post] Deep State or Just Media Suck Up? Dan Caldwell, a key adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was “escorted” out of the Pentagon Tuesday after being implicated during a leak investigation. Caldwell was put on administrative leave for “an unauthorized disclosure,” a US official told Reuters, adding that “the investigation remains ongoing.” A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to The Post that Caldwell had been removed from his post. Caldwell was “escorted” out the Pentagon Tuesday, a DOD spokesperson confirmed. It’s unclear what material Caldwell, a senior adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, is accused of leaking and to whom. Caldwell’s removal comes less than a month after Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered the director for defense intelligence (counterintelligence, law enforcement, and security) to assist in a probe into “unauthorized disclosures of sensitive and classified information across the Department of Defense.” “Recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information involving sensitive communications with principals within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) demand immediate and thorough investigation,” Kasper wrote in the March 21 memo. The directive noted that polygraph tests could be administered “in accordance with applicable law and policy” as part of the hunt for the leaker. It’s unclear whether Caldwell was subjected to a polygraph test. A report including a “complete record of unauthorized disclosures within the Department of Defense and recommendations to improve such efforts” is expected to be delivered to Hegseth at the end of the investigation. “I expect to be informed immediately if this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure, and that such information will be referred to the appropriate criminal law enforcement entity for criminal prosecution,” Kasper wrote. It’s not yet known whether Caldwell will face any criminal charges.
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Sounds like, He may have just signed and did not actually read FORM 4414. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-16 07:06 |
| #2 At some point, I suggest getting rid of people involved in authorized leaks as well. Those are usually shady. Canning the people that authorize leaks ought to tick off all the right people. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-04-16 05:41 |
| #1 Pentagon in crisis as ANOTHER senior official is suspended after Pete Hegseth's top advisor was marched out over 'leaking secrets' that left Trump humiliated |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-16 00:12 |