Senator Cotton Calls for Investigation After West Point Mistakenly Tells Press Outlet That Defense Secretary Nominee Never Applied to the Military Academy
The military academy twice said the defense secretary nominee had never applied or been accepted, though that later turned out to be untrue.

Senator Cotton is calling for an immediate investigation to be launched into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point after a spokesman for the school mistakenly told a left-wing press outlet, ProPublica, that the nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had never applied or been accepted to the school when he was a teenager.
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