A former senior Pentagon official has accused Pete Hegseth of a potential risk to national security after the defense secretary’s wife got involved in his war against reporters.

The official told The New York Times that Hegseth—President Donald Trump’s self-styled “secretary of war”—displayed “poor judgment” when he tried to “expel” NBC News journalist Courtney Kube from the Pentagon as revenge for her having reported on his checkered private life.

As Hegseth did so, according to stunned former colleagues speaking to the outlet, his wife, Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth, who had been assisting Hegseth’s team on communications, weighed in during a private meeting as they sought to turn the screw on reporters.

“It’s hard to find previous reports of a defense secretary letting his wife sit in on

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