Caldwell was named in the “Signalgate” drama when Hegseth told the rest of the leaked group that he was the Pentagon’s best staff point of contact for the National Security Council as it prepared for strikes in Yemen.

A top advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly was escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in a leak investigation into an “unauthorized disclosure.” Reuters, which exclusively reported the development,

Two top Pentagon advisers have been put on administrative leave in the first senior scalps to be taken over the Signal fiasco last month.