Pentagon deputy chief of staff is second Hegseth advisor removed amid DOD leak probe

The deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of Defense (Ministry of Defense) tried administrative leave on Tuesday. Pentagon officials Earlier in the day.

Darin SelnickSenior U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News that the deputy chief of staff of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had been removed from office.

Selnick is investigating the same leak probe as Hegseth Aide Dan Caldwell Safely escort the Pentagon. Selnick and Caldwell are both on administrative leave.

According to the Pentagon’s website, Selnik is a retired Air Force official who has worked extensively in the Veterans Affairs organization.

The biography states: “Mr. Selnik uses his extensive government and non-governmental experience to advocate that veterans position service members as life after productive separation from the first day of their uniforms.”

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Pentagon Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick was removed from office on Tuesday. (Ministry of Defense | Getty Images)

Selnick and Caldwell have worked for veterans in the United States in the past, a group led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Reuters reported that Caldwell was asked for leave for “unauthorized disclosure” as part of an investigation into the Pentagon’s leaked Pentagon documents.

The investigation was announced last month and is concerned about “recent unauthorized disclosure of national security information.”

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland. (Andrzej Iwanczuk/Nurphoto via Getty Images)

Joe Kasper, Chief of Staff of the Department of Defense Write in a memo then. “This investigation will begin immediately and peak in a report to the Secretary of Defense.”

An official told Politico that the leak was linked to the Panama Canal Plan and Elon Musk’s visit to the Pentagon.

Pentagon official Dan Caldwell, leftist and Darin Selnick are investigating. (Related Veterans in the United States | Department of Defense)

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More information about the leak is unknown and there is currently no evidence to connect Caldwell or Selnick to the leak.

Morgan Phillips of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.