'Root of everything': Defense secretary’s inner circle targeted in dual probes

The investigation seeks to determine whether one senior aide, Ricky Buria, helped set up an unsecured internet line that allowed Hegseth to use Signal and whether Buria leaked classified information, the outlet reported, citing three sources familiar with the investigations. “Ricky and Tim are some of the folks that they’re zeroing in on as they try to get to the root of everything,” one of the people familiar with the probes told Politico. The consecutive probes concerning Hegseth's aides speak to the dysfunction that has rocked the Defense Department since the second Trump administration began.

Author: Robert Davis

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