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Report: Pentagon Polygraphs 50 on Joint Staff in Leak Probe

Was this a necessary hunt for dangerous leakers or intimidation to hide munitions shortages?

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Report: Pentagon Polygraphs 50 on Joint Staff in Leak Probe

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Above: Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 2. Image credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-Trump narrative

Telling reporters how many missiles are left in the middle of a shooting war with Iran hands the enemy a roadmap and puts American troops in the crosshairs. Leaks like that are not whistleblowing, and the people responsible belong in a courtroom, not on a source list. Finally, the Pentagon is doing the hard work of tracking them down in a difficult attribution hunt instead of just complaining about it.

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Anti-Trump narrative

Strapping roughly 50 Joint Staff officers to a polygraph machine is a brazen breach of constitutional boundaries, and even a retired Navy judge advocate general calls it unheard of. The real goal is silencing anyone who might tell the public the truth about drained munitions stockpiles. Punishing embarrassment instead of fixing the shortage is how a military loses both trust and wars.

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