Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Justice and the Pentagon have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information to news media, a move that sharpens the administration’s already aggressive posture toward leakers inside the national security apparatus.
Hegseth made the announcement July 13 in a video posted to X, declaring that he had handed investigative muscle to the Pentagon’s own lawyers. The task force pairs two of the federal government’s most powerful institutions in a single enforcement effort aimed squarely at officials who pass sensitive material to reporters.
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