Few journalists would presume, however, that the ideal leaker might, in fact, be the head of the U.S. Armed Services. That appears to have been what happened, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth reportedly texted detailed operational war plans to the head editor of The Atlantic.

Former defense secretary says somebody ‘needs to get fired’ over Trump admin’s shocking war plans leak to journalist - ‘This is just a serious blunder,’ Leon Panetta stated, adding that it ‘could viol