A third Pentagon official was suspended as part of an investigation into data leaks.

Colin Carroll, the chief of Staff and deputy head of the Pentagon, was removed from his post as part of an investigation into information leaks. This was reported by Politico on Wednesday, April 16.

This is the third official who has been removed from office due to the investigation. Earlier it was reported that one of the leading advisers to the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Dan Caldwell, was sent on leave on a similar charge. According to the source, the leaks under investigation include military operational plans for the Panama Canal, information about a second aircraft carrier sent to the Red Sea, the controversial visit of American billionaire Elon Musk to the Pentagon to discuss China, and the suspension of intelligence gathering for Ukraine.

In the USA, the scandal continues with the leakage of data from the chat in Signal. What you need to know

The scandalous publication of The Atlantic magazine discussing attacks on the Houthis by the US administration became known on March 25. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, said that on March 11, he received a request to connect to Signal from a user under the nickname Mike Waltz. Two days later, Goldberg received a notification about being added to a group chat called "Houthis small group."

Then, on March 15, a user named Pete Hegseth posted a message that contained details of the upcoming strikes against the Houthis. According to the screenshots, Hegseth sent information about the departure of American F-18 fighter jets 31 minutes before the start of the mission.

Later, on March 26, it became known that the American human rights organization American Oversight filed a lawsuit in the federal court of the District of Columbia against the head of the Pentagon. In response, on March 27, Trump said that the Defense minister had nothing to do with the incident.