Exclusive: Alleged Pentagon "Leaker" Colin Carroll Speaks Out About Life Inside DOD, Hegseth's Leadership, and to Dispute Allegations | Ep. 1058
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Who is Colin Carroll and what is his background?
And thanks for your service.
Thank you.
What branch of the military did you serve in?
I am still in the Marine Corps Reserve. Still in. I was active duty for a while.
Okay. And you were deployed?
I was deployed. Yes, ma'am.
Afghanistan?
Afghanistan three times. Wow.
Thank you. I appreciate it. So you wound up working in the Pentagon. How?
So I graduated from the Naval Academy, aerospace engineer, went in the Marine Corps, did my time as an active duty intelligence officer. Weirdly, not doing a lot of intel things, but mostly in the force reconnaissance community, deployed a bunch of times. I left the Marine Corps. I continued to serve as a duty civilian for a while doing some other jobs. And then I left the duty to go work for Project Maven as a as a Marine Corps reserve officer. So in the Office of Secretary of Defense, 2017 to 2019, it's an AI program. From there, I went to Johns Hopkins. I went out to industry. And then I left. I was at Andral Industries. I left Andral right before the administration started here. And I joined to be the deputy's chief of staff.
Okay. So where is Steven Feinberg in relation to Pete?
He works directly for Pete and he is the deputy secretary of defense. So the normal way things work, the secretary is kind of up and out, up being towards the White House, out being towards the combat commands, our allies and partners, and then the deputies down and in. So running the day-to-day operations of the department.
And so you were his chief of staff. And who was Pete's chief of staff?
Pete's chief of staff was Joe Casper until I think earlier this week.
We're going to hear that name a lot. So you two were sort of in parallel positions. He was for the top guy and you were for the number two guy. Correct. And how does Dan Caldwell fit in, the one who went on Tucker?
So Dan is a close friend of Pete, or probably was until about a week ago. Dan, I met Dan in November during the transition. Dan was kind of the guy in the back of the room when Pete interviewed me back in November. And he was with the secretary all the way through transition, confirmation. He joined as a senior advisor doing policy ops work in the secretary's front office.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Colin Carroll and what is his background?
2:14–5:10
2
What roles did Colin Carroll and his colleagues hold at the Pentagon?
5:10–15:59
3
What led to the leak investigation and firings at the Department of Defense?
15:59–26:16
4
What is the timeline and nature of the leak investigation at the Pentagon?
26:16–27:42
5
How did Colin Carroll experience his firing and what was his response?
27:42–1:23:57
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