Pentagon spokesman labels IG’s SignalGate evaluation ‘political witch hunt’

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The top Pentagon spokesman called the Department of Defense inspector general’s evaluation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s controversial use of Signal “a political witch hunt.”

“The Inspector General evaluation is clearly a political witch hunt by Biden administration holdovers as evidenced by [the] fact that they’ve already started leaking to the failing New York Times,” Sean Parnell, the department’s senior spokesman, told the Washington Examiner in a statement on Wednesday.

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