The chief of Cabinet of the Defense Departments (DOD) was placed on administrative license on Tuesday, after the steps of another earlier pentagon official in the day.
Darin Selnick, the deputy director of Cabinet of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth, has been eliminated, confirmed a senior US official to Fox News.
Selnick is under investigation of the same leakage probe that he saw Hegseeth Dan Caldwell’s assistant escorted the pentagon for safety.
Both Selnick and Caldwell are on administrative license.
According to the Pentagon website, Selnick is a retired officer from the Air Force that has worked extensively in veterans affairs organizations.
“Mr. Selnick takes advantage of his extensive government and non -governmental experience that he legalizes so that veterans position the members of the service for a productive life after the dam from the first day that they wear a uniform,” says the biography.
Both Selnick and Caldwell worked for the veterans worried for the United States in the past, a group previously led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth.
Reuters reported that Caldwell was licensed for an “unauthorized dissemination”, as part of an investigation into filtered documents of the Pentagon.
The investigation was announced last month and worried about “recent unauthorized dissemination of national security information.”
“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 At the moment. “This investigation will begin immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.”
An official told Politico that the filtration referred to the Panama Canal’s plans and Elon Musk’s visit to Pentagon, among other issues.
More information about the escape is unknown, and there is currently no evidence to connect Caldwell or Selnick with that leak.
Morgan Phillips of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.