Hegseth brought his wife to two highly sensitive meetings with foreign military officials.

[Tonk]

It gets stranger every day.

Katherine Long, Max Colchester, Daniel Michaels, and Lindsay Wise write in the Wall Street Journal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.

One of the meetings, a high-level discussion at the Pentagon on March 6 between Hegseth and U.K. Secretary of Defense John Healey, took place at a sensitive moment for the trans-Atlantic alliance, one day after the U.S. said it had cut off military intelligence sharing with Ukraine. The group that met at the Pentagon, which included Adm. Tony Radakin, the head of the U.K.’s armed forces, discussed the U.S. rationale behind that decision, as well as future military collaboration between the two allies, according to people familiar with the meeting.

WSJ noted that it isn't uncommon for a Cabinet Secretary to bring a spouse to a meeting, but procedures require a minimum low-level security clearance. Even with clearance, according to DOD officials, the spouse is limited to those who need to know.

Jennifer Hegseth is not a DOD employee. She declined to confirm or deny whether she has such a clearance to accompany her husband to military meetings, and DOD officials declined to comment.

Jennifer Hegseth also attended a meeting last month at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels where allied defense officials discussed their support for Ukraine, according to two people who attended the meeting. Hegseth’s brother Philip Hegseth has also been traveling with him on official visits, the Pentagon said.

The Brussels meeting, which took place on the sidelines of a February conference of NATO defense ministers, was a gathering of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a U.S.-led forum of some 50 nations that periodically meets to coordinate on production and delivery of weapons and other support for Ukraine. At the closed-door discussions, national representatives routinely present confidential information, such as donations to Ukraine that they don’t want to be made public, according to officials.

Sounds like a family intervention to me.