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Topline Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blamed the media and former “disgruntled employees” for new allegations he shared sensitive military information with his wife, brother and lawyer on the encrypted messaging app Signal—though he also did not deny it—marking the latest in a series of controversies engulfing the Pentagon. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a reenlistment ceremony for Congressional Medal … More of Honor recipient Sgt. Dakota Meyer at the Pentagon. Getty Images Key Facts “What a big surprise a . . . few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out,” Hegseth told reporters Monday at the White House Easter egg roll, apparently referring to three top staffers—Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll—who were terminated last week after a leak investigation, though the three have said publicly they’re unsure why they were terminated. Calling the media “a bunch of hoaxers,” Hegseth did not outright deny the report, instead saying, “this is what the media does—they take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.” Hegseth was responding to a New York Times report a day earlier in which four unnamed sources alleged he shared in a Signal group chat with his family members and lawyer the flight schedules of the fighter jets that struck Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15, around the same time he also shared the information on the previously reported Signal chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Hegseth reportedly created the group chat to discuss scheduling in January, before the former Fox News host was confirmed as Defense Secretary, adding his family members and about a dozen others, including Caldwell and Selnick. Hegseth aides warned him several days before the strikes not to discuss…

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