🔵 Pentagon Leaker Busted

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Citizen Frank
April 15, 2025

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, April 15.

 

Dan Caldwell, top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified in an investigation into internal leaks, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Caldwell has been placed on administrative leave due to what the official described as “an unauthorized disclosure.” The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the action had not been publicly reported before Tuesday.

The DOD has faced recent scrutiny after Hegseth and other top Trump Cabinet officials engaged in a Signal group chat, which included a journalist, while discussing war plans.

A man is facing a federal charge after allegedly threatening to kill Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her husband, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, 24, of Lilburn, Georgia, allegedly sent threatening text messages about Gabbard and her husband, Abraham Williams, between March 29 and April 1, the Justice Department said in a news release. He was charged with transmitting interstate threats.

“Prepare to die, you, Tulsi, and everyone you hold dear,” one of the texts read, according to the release. “America will burn.”

Chinese security officials claimed on Tuesday that three individuals from the US National Security Agency (NSA) attacked the information infrastructure during the 9th Asian Winter Games held in the Northeastern city of Harbin in February.

Police named three US individuals working in the NSA’s Office of Tailored Access Operations, an intelligence-gathering unit on cyber warfare, in a statement released on Weibo, Chinese social media platform.

These hackers also “repeatedly carried out cyber attacks” on the Chinese telecommunication company Huawei and other businesses, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.

As China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to fill a potential shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies — and this could threaten Washington’s military capabilities.

Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs on China, Beijing earlier this month imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets used in defense, energy and automotive technologies.

The new restrictions — which encompass the medium and heavy rare earth elements samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium — will require Chinese companies to secure special licenses to export the resources.

Russian warplanes have been detected off the coast of Alaska in a terrifying escalation, military officials said Tuesday.

Officials with the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Russian aircraft never entered American or Canadian airspace.

Authorities did not name the type of Russian aircraft, how many flew close to the coast nor what their purpose was.

OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed. CEO Sam Altman has been privately asking outsiders for feedback about the project, our sources say. It’s unclear if OpenAI’s plan is to release the social network as a separate app or integrate it into ChatGPT, which became the most downloaded app globally last month.

Launching a social network in or around ChatGPT would likely increase Altman’s already-bitter rivalry with Elon Musk.

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking the legal status and work permits of the more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who flew into the United States during former President Joe Biden’s time in office.

The migrants came to the U.S. under Biden’s controversial CHNV mass humanitarian parole program.

In her order, Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote that each migrant needs to have an individualized, case-by-case review.

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