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Third Top Pentagon Staffer Suspended in Expanding Leak Probe Fallout
 
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
Published April 16, 2025 at 6:25 pm

A drumbeat of suspensions of top Pentagon officials continued into a second day on Wednesday with a defense official confirming that Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, was suspended.

Carroll is the third top political appointee to be suspended from his job in connection with a leak probe -- apparently into a news story about a proposed top secret China briefing to Elon Musk -- that also ensnared Dan Caldwell, a top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Darin Selnick, Hegseth's deputy chief of staff.
 
The move has surprised and puzzled officials in the Pentagon since Caldwell and Selnick were trusted advisers who were close to Hegseth.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/16/third-top-pentagon-staffer-suspended-expanding-leak-probe-fallout.html
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