Pentagon top official Colin Carroll sent on go away, third to be suspended amid leaks probe

Colin Carroll, a Marine Corps officer, has grow to be the third official to be positioned on administrative go away from the Pentagon, amid an ongoing investigation into data leaks on the United States Department of Defense.
Carroll is the chief of employees to US deputy secretary of protection Steve A Feinberg. The two officers who’ve already been sent on go away are Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to protection secretary Pete Hegseth, and Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s chief of employees.
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“We can confirm Mr. Carroll has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation. We have nothing additional to provide at this time,” Fox News Digital quoted a senior official as saying.
Who is Colin Carroll?
Carroll is a US Marine Corps intelligence officer, and he beforehand labored at Anduril Industries, a protection contractor which focuses on autonomous techniques, in accordance to his LinkedIn profile. He additionally labored for Applied Intuition, a California-based software program firm.
A graduate from the United States Naval Academy, he was sent to Afghanistan 4 instances as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom. His instructional credentials embrace an aerospace engineering diploma from the naval academy, and a grasp’s diploma from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Pentagon leaks case
Last month, the Department of Defense, headquartered on the Pentagon constructing in Washington DC, started an investigation into “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information.”
Joe Kasper, Hegseth’s chief of employees, wrote in a March 21 memo, “This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the secretary of defense. The report will include a complete record of unauthorized disclosures within the Department of Defense and recommendations to improve such efforts.”