Top Hegseth Adviser Dan Caldwell ‘Escorted’ Out of Pentagon, Placed on Leave Amid Leak Probe
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.
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. (Read more from “Top Hegseth Adviser Dan Caldwell ‘Escorted’ Out of Pentagon, Placed on Leave Amid Leak Probe” HERE)
