The trio, in a press release posted by Dan Caldwell, mentioned they nonetheless don’t perceive why they have been positioned on depart.
A trio of former Pentagon workers spoke out on April 19 after being positioned on depart this week in reference to an ongoing investigation into leaks inside the Division of Protection.
This week, a Protection Division official confirmed that Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll, and Darin Selnick have been all positioned on administrative depart throughout an ongoing leak investigation.
“We’re extremely disillusioned by the style by which our service on the Division of Protection ended,” the assertion started.
Till this week, Caldwell had been serving as an adviser to Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth. Selnick was most just lately listed as Hegseth’s deputy chief of workers. Carroll served because the chief of workers to Deputy Protection Secretary Stephen Feinberg.
“Unnamed Pentagon officers have slandered our character with baseless assaults on our means out the door,” Caldwell’s submit continued. “All three of us served our nation honorably in uniform—for 2 of us, this included deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, primarily based on our collective service, we perceive the significance of data safety and labored each day to guard it.”
Caldwell is a Marine Corps veteran and just lately labored for the Protection Priorities nationwide safety suppose tank. Carroll can also be a Marine veteran who served as an intelligence officer. Selnick is a retired Air Pressure officer.
The Pentagon has provided no specifics about what led to the three males being faraway from their posts.
“Right now, we nonetheless haven’t been instructed what precisely we have been investigated for, if there’s nonetheless an energetic investigation, or if there was even an actual investigation of ‘leaks’ to start with,” Caldwell’s social media submit added.
The social media submit states all three males stay supportive of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their administration’s efforts to “make the Pentagon nice once more and obtain peace by energy.”
“We hope sooner or later to assist these efforts in numerous capacities,” the assertion concludes.
Caldwell seems to have been tangentially concerned in a separate leak episode final month.