Jason Crow: “Let’s also not forget that several of those officers have since taken their lives due to the stress of that event and…”

The problem is the broader context that Pete Hegseth has created here.

And he's created an environment of fear. He's pushed out journalists. He's pushed out media.

I'm going to go after that money, and I'm not going to apologize for it.

The probe "part of his effort to create fear and to clamp down on information coming out of the Pentagon.