WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth clarified this week with reporters that the recent leak of classified information to a journalist was actually supposed to have been a close-up photograph of his genitals.

The classified war plans shared with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, which included details about upcoming military activities against Houthi rebels in Yemen, were shared in an unclassified chat with a file named “warpig.pdf.”

Defense officials explained that WarPIG, an acronym for “War plans, I guess,” shares identical nomenclature with Hegseth’s penis, a photo of which was later distributed as the coincidentally named “warpig.png.”