Washington-Dan Caldwell, once one of the highest advisors of US defense minister Pete Hegseth, and two other former Pentagon employees questioned an internal study by the authority on Saturday (local time) for passing on to confidential information. This had led to suspension of the three men. “We are incredibly disappointed with the way our service in the Ministry of Defense has ended,” Caldwell wrote about X. “Unsemined Pentagon officials have slandered our character with unfounded attacks.”