US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's chief of staff, Joe Casper, is leaving his position, a senior official said last night, as turmoil continues at a department beset by leaks and a series of departures.
It is the latest departure of a Pentagon employee who has been in turmoil since it was revealed in late March that the secretary participated in a security breach via the Signal app.
Kasper, who will stop working alongside Pete Hegsett, will still continue to advise the Pentagon on a different basis, which will allow him to work for the department up to 130 days a year.
Last week, three more senior officials were fired after an internal investigation was opened.
The three officials, Darin Selnick, Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll, responded that they had not yet been informed of the exact reason "for which they were fired" or "even whether there was a proper investigation into the 'leaks' of information."
Hessett, a former Fox News anchor, has come under fire after sharing confidential information over the Signal messaging system in March in a group chat that included a journalist who was mistakenly included.
Hegsett also, according to media reports, shared the same information with his family members.
John Ulliott, the short-lived Pentagon spokesman at the beginning of Hegseth's tenure, described a "month of total chaos" at the US Department of Defense.
The Politik portal wrote about a month of utter chaos in the Pentagon, from leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass layoffs, indicating that the dysfunction of the department is now beginning to weigh on United States President Donald Trump, who, as the portal states, "deserves better from his senior leadership."
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