Two Department of Defense (DOD) officials are now on administrative leave Tuesday night amid investigations of internal leaks within the agency. The DOD has faced recent scrutiny after Hegseth and other top Trump Cabinet officials engaged in a Signal group chat, which included a journalist, while discussing war plans.

Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday as part of a probe into leaks at the Defense Department