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This post will publish in 31 minute(s), 10 second(s)">Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is hemorrhaging senior officials faster than the Justice Department’s resignation tsunami last month, when seven federal prosecutors quit over the acting Deputy Attorney General’s quid pro quo scheme to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for his cooperation with the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. So if you’re having trouble following the leak labyrinth at home, you’re not alone.

Three Pentagon officials  were recently put on administrative leave – and then fired – pursuant a leak investigation ( “Leak Investigation 2”) into the reporting of military plans for the Panama Canal, a second carrier en route to the Red Sea,  Elon Musk’s planned field trip to the Pentagon for a military briefing on China or a pause in the collection of intelligence for Ukraine. We don’t really know. Remarkably, however, the massive operational security failure dubbed “Signalgate” – when National Security Advisor Mike Waltz unwittingly invited the editor of The Atlantic into an encrypted-but-unsecured chat where Walz, Hegseth, and other principals discussed real-time U.S. airstrikes on Yemen – does not seem to be among the possibilities. (Signalgate is part of an earlier-launched, separate Pentagon Inspector General investigation into whether Hegseth shared classified information with other senior national security leaders across the executive branch over an encrypted, but unclassified, commercial messaging app, “Leak Investigation 1”.)

This uncertainty stemming from why the three high-level Defense Department political appointees were put on leave and then fired prompted chatter that they were being unfairly targeted or treated as sacrificial lambs for others in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s office. Like the Justice........

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