First in Fox: Bitter internal disputes in the Pentagon extended to the public this week after the members of the internal circle of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth were relieved of their duties, and now the accusations fly again as low races.
Three main aids were placed to Hegseeth permission and left the building this week when the unauthorized pentagon probes: the main advisor Dan Caldwell, the deputy director of Cabinet Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, head of Stinaberg.
Another press assistant, John Ullyot, separated from the Pentagon because he did not want to be the second in command of the communications store.
But Fox News Digital has learned from multiple defense officials that the three employees were never told what they were accused of filtering, they had not read their rights and that they were not given guidance on who they could or could not speak. Nor were they asked to deliver their cell phones as part of the leakage probe.
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Bitter disputes between the internal circle of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth extended to the public this week. (Franco Brana/AFP through Getty Images)
At least one of the former employees is consulting with legal advisor, but none has been fire and everyone expects the result of the investigation.
“Being paid license is not considered a disciplinary decision. It is a preliminary step to carry out an investigation, so if they are bees, they were handled or handled, they will have some process of Doales,” Timmons, a legal expert in military and labor laws, sought opportunities.
“They have humiliated in the leg in the media to some extent. However, this happens every day in the federal government. In general, what happened so far is not necessarily a discipline consulted. It simply proposes emails, and a complete and exhaustive independent investigation can be carried out.”
The authorities denied that the three men were licensed because Oreign Policy Views and did not see connection with their positions in Iran and Israel, reports also arose that President Donald Trump told Netanyah I will go Israeli.
Pentagon officials Dan Caldwell, on the left, and Darin Selnick are being investigated in the middle of the investigation. (Veterans concerned with America | Defense Department)
Selnick focused on operations, administration and personnel issues; Carroll focused largely on the acquisitions; And Caldwell mainly advised in the European portfolio.
But the trio was united, according to a defense official with knowledge of the situation, in the fact that Hegseeth’s chief of cabinet, Joe Kasper, had a “deep revenge” against them. Kasper issued a memorandum at the end of March, ordering the Pentagon to investigate unauthorized disseminations to journalists and get away as using lies detector tests if necessary.
The three had expressed concern to Hegseeth about Kasper’s leadership, and Kasper believed that they tried to fire him, according to an official.
Those tensions had hironated in “shout matches in the main office,” said the official.
Another Pentagon official insisted that any accusation that the shots had to do with something more than the unauthorized escape investigation was “false.”
“It’s not about interpersonal conflict,” said that official. “There is evidence of escape. These are unauthorized disseminations, to and including classified information.”
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Colin Carroll, head of the Cabinet of the Secretary of Defense of Stephen Feinberg, poses for a duration of the photo, a key leader in Camp HM Smith, Hawaii, on February 7. (Moses S. López Franco/Us Marine Corps)
The three assistants are appointed civil politicians, which means that they could be fires regardless of the investigation. But if it is discovered that they have dedicated themselves to unauthorized sources, they could make their security authorizations move away.
“There are very few protections when it comes to people named Versus Civil Personnel,” Libby Jamison said, a lawyer who specializes in military law. “For those named, there is a very broad discretion that must be placed on administrative or reallocated license.”
If employees are accused of filtration, a report is a sentence to the Security Defense Information System, and then there is an independent review of their eligibility for access to confidential information.
“They will have the opportunity, potentially, to try to maintain their authorization and demonstrate that they did not violate any security protocol when it comes to handling confidential information,” Timmons said. “If it is discovered that they were filtering information in violation of the rules, and then it is a violation of the guide for personal misconduct and for breach of confidential information. Therefore, they are possible criminally processed and are screwed and hatred that they are tender and hatine and that they are shy and hatine.
Or, if the independent officer does not find enough evidence to link them to the leaks, they could return to their positions and authorizations of Mintain.
Meanwhile, Ullyot said he had done Hegseth from the beginning that “he was not interested in being number two for anyone in public affairs.”
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ULFOT directed the Public Affairs Office in a basic action at the beginning of the administration, leading a memorandum that backed down the work spaces for the inherited media and reassigned them to conservative networks. Ullyot also hit the former president of the Chief of Staff of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, saying that his “corpulence” gave a bad example for the standards of fitness of the Pentagon.
But as his main temporal role came to an end and Sean Parnell Tok, the pentagon chief spokesman, Ulleyot said he and Hegseth “could not get another good adjustment for me in Dod. So I informed that he will.
Ulfot said he is still one of Hegseeth’s “strongest supporters.”