A third employee of the high -level administrative license pentagon has been placed in two days as part of a probe in the media leaks.
Colin Carroll, Chief of Personnel of the Undersecretary Stephen Feinberg, was escorted the building on Wednesday, after Dan Caldwell, main advisor of Secretary Pete Hegseth and Darin Selnick, Deputy Director of Hegseth Cabinet.
“We can confirm that Mr. Carroll has been placed in a pending administrative license pending research. We have nothing more to provide at this time,” said a defense official to Fox News Digital.
Carroll did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
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The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, attends a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the headquarters of the Alliance in Brussels, Belgium, on February 13, 2025. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
The Pentagon has not provided details about what the three officials are accused of filtering.
Last month, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it would launch an investigation into “recent unauthorized dissemination of national security information” and could use the use of polygraphs to determine the source of leaks.
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“The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will agree with the applicable law and policy, chief of the Joe Kasper Department of Defense wrote in a memo. “This investigation will begin immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.”
He wrote that “information that identifies a responsible part of an unauthorized dissemination” would be sent for criminal prosecution.
