Staffers at the Department of War (DOW), including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, will now need to get prior approval before sharing any information with Congress.
In a memo dated Oct. 15 and seen by The Epoch Times, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and his deputy, Steve Feinberg, directed Pentagon officials to coordinate all communications with Capitol Hill through the department’s office of legislative affairs.
“The Assistant Secretary of War for Legislative Affairs provides centralized direction, integration, and control of DoW legislative affairs and liaison activities with the U.S. Congress,” Hegseth and Feinberg wrote in the memo, which was first reported by Breaking Defense….