Pentagon’s top military planner Army Lt Gen Brett Sylvia.
\n\nArmy Lt Gen Brett Sylvia, the Pentagon's top military planner, admitted to leaking classified information about Ukraine and Iran to two journalists from separate media outlets over a period of a year, according to an internal investigation report quoted by Axios.
\n\nSylvia was dismissed this week by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth over the alleged misconduct. A US official told Axios that the general acknowledged the disclosures on video after failing four polygraph tests.
\n\nThe investigation report accused Sylvia of making "unauthorised disclosures to the media". It said he had been "cooperative with answering questions about interactions with the media to resolve this" and had provided his personal phone for a forensic examination.
\n\nThe report said the disclosures began as early as June 2025, before the Pentagon barred several mainstream media outlets from its premises, and continued afterwards through the encrypted messaging app Signal and an in-person meeting at a diner in Arlington, Virginia.
\n\nOne meeting took place at a Silver Diner after a reporter's access to the Pentagon had been revoked, the report said. During the meeting, Sylvia used notes taken while reviewing a classified secret report to verbally share…
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