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Pete Hegseth: “Following a review of Pentagon procedures in consultation…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth directs civilian employees of DOD to respond to 5-point email demand.

Published | Video Starts at 01:25

Well, the Department of Defense employees received direction to at first, just initially pause responding to this request to opm. Just to pause now, as we said, Following a review of Pentagon procedures in consultation with the Office of Personal Management, because we do we work on topics of national security, of sensitivity of classification, we needed to be careful on that front. I am now directing each member of the department's civilian workforce, just civilian, to provide those five bullets on what they accomplished in their specific jobs last week to reply to that email and CC their immediate supervisors. (01:25–01:39)

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Asserts that the Pentagon reviewed procedures with OPM due to national security and classification concerns.

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