Will Brown, the acting Inspector General for the National Archives, has launched an investigation into how Democrat New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill’s full military file was released and obtained by her political opponent, Jack Ciattarelli.

“The illegal release of my military records — including my Social Security number — was no mistake,” Sherrill said on X earlier in the day Tuesday. “A process that typically takes more than year was thrown out after a Ciattarelli ally made one phone call to a ‘very helpful person.'

“If you believe that’s an accident, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”

CBS News got hold of the unredacted file last week, including Sherrill's Social Security number, life insurance information, home address, and more.

Political hit job

The Ciattarelli ally, Nicholas De Gregorio, got the documents through a Freedom of Information Act Request, but personal details should not have been included.

Understandably, Sherrill is calling it a political hit job, and she's probably not wrong.

When CBS News asked about the inclusion of the personal details, the National Archives said,

National Archives said, “The technician should NOT have released the entire record.”

More challenges

It's not the only problem Sherrill is having with her campaign.

Around the same time, revelations broke that Sherrill didn't get to walk during her commencement at the Naval Academy because of involvement in the cheating scandal going on at the time.

She has said the discipline occurred because she refused to rat out her classmates.

She has also been accused of nepotism in two of her children's admission to the Naval Academy after she congratulated the latest class of attendees from her district and didn't mention that two of them were her offspring.

"Mikie Sherrill's two kids are at the Naval Academy, one of the hardest schools to get into, because of her nepotism," Rasmussen pollster Mark Mitchell posted on X. "Meanwhile, some hardworking, impoverished, and unconnected teenagers lose out on a life dream they earned."

She's got an uphill climb to get elected, but it is New Jersey, so it may not be as hard as one would think.