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Pete Hegeth Adviser in Signal Group Chat Suddenly Put on Leave | Dan Caldwell, who was in that war plans group chat on Signal alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was just escorted out of the Pentagon.


bruptly placed on administrative leave after he was connected to an information leak at the Department of Defense, Reuters reported Tuesday. Dan Caldwell was escorted from the Pentagon Tuesday and is being investigated for an “an unauthorized disclosure” of classified DoD information, an anonymous U.S.

It’s unclear what leaked intelligence Caldwell is being investigated for, but he was wrapped up last month’s Signalgate scandal, in which members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet discussed U.S. military plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen in an Signal group chat that also happened to include The Atlantic ’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative, anti-immigrant think tank, has identified 13 so-called sanctuary states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. Last week, Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs, his former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who was fired in November 2020 for publicly contradicting the president’s false claims of “massive voter fraud” in the presidential election that year.

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