Washington:
US Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of workers is leaving his job, a senior protection official mentioned Thursday, within the newest shakeup to hit the higher echelons of the Pentagon’s management.
“Joe Kasper will proceed to serve President Trump as a Particular Authorities Worker (SGE) dealing with particular tasks on the Division of Protection,” the official mentioned, including: “Secretary Hegseth is grateful for his continued management and work to advance the America First agenda.”
His departure is the most recent in a collection of high-profile exits from prime Pentagon posts, together with three officers who had been eliminated final week amid an investigation into leaks after they reportedly clashed with Kasper.
Former senior advisors Darin Selnick, Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll hit again on Sunday, saying Pentagon officers had “slandered our character with baseless assaults.”
“We nonetheless haven’t been instructed what precisely we had been investigated for, if there may be nonetheless an energetic investigation, or if there was even an actual investigation of ‘leaks’ to start with,” they mentioned in a joint assertion posted on social media.
Hegseth’s former Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot additionally took purpose at him in a scathing opinion piece on Sunday that described “a month of whole chaos on the Pentagon.”
“President Donald Trump has a robust report of holding his prime officers to account. On condition that, it is exhausting to see Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his function for for much longer,” wrote Ullyot.
The shakeups come as Hegseth faces a brand new scandal over his reported use of messaging app Sign to debate US strikes on Yemen together with his spouse and different individuals not often concerned in such discussions.
The White Home has stood by him up to now, simply weeks after it emerged that Hegseth additionally shared particulars in regards to the strikes in opposition to Yemen’s Huthi rebels in one other Sign chat to which a journalist had been inadvertently added.
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