The Senate Armed Services Committee will ask the White House for an expedited inspector general investigation into the apparent leak of classified information by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Sen. Roger Wicker, the committee’s chair, said on Wednesday.
“The information, as published recently, appears to me to be of such a sensitive nature — based on my knowledge, I would have wanted it classified,” Wicker told reporters. “I think it’s incumbent on us to verify that those were actually the words and the sentences.”
The ranking member of the committee, Sen. Jack Reed, is pushing for an investigation, as well as a classified briefing on the issue from a senior official at the White House.