CNN’s Bertrand: Sr. Advisor to Pete Hegseth Is Escorted out of Pentagon Following a Leak Investigation

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BERTRAND: "Well, John, this is a very senior advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who apparently was escorted out of the Pentagon today following a leak investigation in which he was apparently implicated in disclosing classified information, sensitive information. And he, as a result of that unauthorized disclosure, has now been placed on administrative leave. Now, this all comes after two very high profile incidents at the Pentagon involving the disclosure of sensitive and classified information. One of them, of course, was that Signalgate fiasco in which Secretary of Defense Hegseth revealed imminent war plans relating to Houthi — strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, in which he actually named Dan Caldwell, the individual who was escorted out of the Pentagon today, as his main point of contact for the Pentagon when it came to communicating about those Houthi strikes. Totally unclear if that has to do with this leak probe. But the other incident, of course, was that big disclosure by The New York Times last month about the very sensitive meeting that Elon Musk was set to have at the Pentagon about China and China war plans. That resulted in a leak investigation by the Department of Defense to include the use of polygraph tests. And according to the Secretary of Defense‘s chief of staff, that was going to result in potentially the referral of anyone caught up in that probe to the appropriate law enforcement entity. So, unclear at this point exactly what happened here with this individual. But clearly, they‘re taking it very seriously at this point, John."