Ex-DOD Spokesman: ‘Bombshell’ News to Drop This Week

Former top Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot wrote in an opinion piece for Politico on Sunday that, amid a “month of total chaos” at the Department of Defense, more “bombshell stories” are “coming this week.”

Ullyot, who resigned on Wednesday after being “sidelined” in March, according to the New York Post, for taking down a DOD webpage on MLB icon Jackie Robinson, wrote in Politico that the internal turmoil at the Pentagon had reached a “flashpoint,” the latest of which was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of “three of his most loyal senior staffers — senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy secretary of Defense.”

The leaks allegedly included disclosures about plans for the Panama Canal, naval movements in the Red Sea, a visit from Elon Musk to the Pentagon last month, and the pause on intelligence sharing with Ukraine in March.

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