Pete Hegseeth’s top adviser Dan Caldwell supervised the Pentagon for ‘unauthorized disclosure’ of classified information
A top advisor for Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth was from the Pentagon On Tuesday after they reportedly they were identified during an investigation into leaks in the department.
Dan Caldwell was placed with administrative leave for ‘an unauthorized disclosure’, an officer told Reuters.
“The investigation remains,” said the civil servant without providing details about the nature of the alleged disclosure, including whether it was made to a journalist or to anyone else.
The movement is coming After a memo of 21 March that a Pentagon study ordered to leak ordered by Hegseeth’s Staff Chef Joe Kasper.
Kasper asked for an investigation into “recent unauthorized disclosures of information about national security with regard to sensitive communication.”
His memo opened the possibility of a polygraaf, although it was unclear whether Caldwell was one.
Top Pentagon advisor Dan Caldwell was accompanied from the building for leaks
Although Caldwell is not as well known as other high Pentagon officials, he played a crucial role as Hegseeth adviser.
His interest was underlined in a leaked text chain on Signal that was described by the Atlantic Magazine last month.
In it, Hegseeth Caldwell mentioned the best personnel point for the National Security Council when it prepared for the launch of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
Caldwell, a veteran of the Marine Corps, was head of the transition team in the Pentagon and took the lead on hiring staff from the Ministry of Defense.
Before he became a member of the Hegseeth team, Caldwell worked for defense priorities and delivered veterans for America.
Defense priorities, a conservative think tank funded by the Koch brothers, argues for more reserved American foreign policy.
Dish veterans for America have strong links with the Republican legislators in the committees of the veterans and armed services – and it has enjoyed a friendly relationship with President Donald Trump in the past.
Hegseeth and Caldwell worked at CVA at the same time and came close. Hegseeth was funded by the Kock brothers and was head of the CVA for a few years.
Caldwell and Hegseeth, just like Vice President JD Vance, all share the same isolationist image of foreign policy. Similar in age, they are all veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan.
Caldwell, in an interview with Politico last year, when he worked defense priorities, said about his time in Iraq: ‘We did not accept this attitude of damage. We wanted to fight. We didn’t want to hurt anyone unnecessarily. Yet our presence has unintentionally hurt people. Many people. ‘
And he told the Financial Times in December: ‘Often President Trump died against failures of American foreign policy, he is his most focused and just angry. And that really appealed to me in 2016. “
Caldwell, while at the Pentagon, insisted on the US to drastically reduce his military footprint abroad.
He also trivialized the meaning of the American-Israeli alliance.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth (above) collaborated with Caldwell at Concerned Veterans for America before they both became members of the Trump administration
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office
During his military service in the Presidential Support Program of Marine Corps, Caldwell worked, where he was a member of the security force at the presidential retreat in Camp David.
He was later deployed in Iraq to support operation Iraqi Freedom and carried out activities in Al Anbar and Ninawa provinces.
After leaving the service, he worked for Rep. David Schweikert, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, from 2011 to 2013, aimed at veterans and defense issues.
