The information was identical to the sensitive details of the Yemen operations shared in the first Signal chat, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal for speaking to the press. Those three were escorted out of the Pentagon as the department hunts down leaks of inside information, and in his “Fox and Friends” interview Tuesday, an agitated Hegseth accused those staff — whom he had worked with and known for years — of “attempting to leak and sabotage” the administration. On Sunday, former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said there was a “near collapse in the Pentagon’s top ranks.” In an op-ed published in Politico, he said that “Hegseth is now presiding over a strange and baffling purge that will leave him without his two closest advisers of over a decade — Caldwell and Selnick — and without chiefs of staff for him and his deputy.”
Author: Tara Copp, Associated Press
Published at: 2025-04-22 22:29:13
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