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Breaking News: Roughly 50 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff were subject to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, officials said.
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: Roughly 50 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff were subject to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, officials said.
Al Jazeera
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About 50 officers on the US Joint Staff were interrogated over reports detailing depleted weapons stockpiles, NYT says.
Bloomberg
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On Bloomberg This Weekend Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks. Esper tells hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less concerned about immediate combat readiness than the institutional impact of leadership turnover and its potential effect on the military’s tradition of an apolitical officer corps. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Hill
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Some of the U.S. military’s highest-ranking officials were subject to polygraph tests as part of a sweeping Pentagon investigation into leaks to journalists on dwindling weapons stockpiles amid the Iran war, multiple reports suggest. Military officials and civilian employees were tested in August, including roughly 50 members of the Joint Staff, according to the New…