Pentagon gives polygraph tests to Joint Staff in leak probe
It would be extra funny if the culprit was named “Major Leak” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
tujungadude, but pissed and sad31nothing improves operational morale like widespread polygraphs
WayneS 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈 - Elbows up!29When you treat you soldiers like shit, there’s going to be some dissenters.
Marf25Funny cause Pete hegseth gets drunk and talks.
Mr E25I thought it was Major Leak-Hunt
All Out of Bubblegum19Polygraph? It's been proven unreliable for decades already. At this point they'd be better off calling a clairvoyant. What a bunch of incompetent fools.
bayareaguitarplay.bsky.social18He reports to General Disarray.
JJ in DC23In a previous life, a group of us young miscreants thought we had *really* screwed up when we were told that a Lieutenant General wanted to “speak with us.” Turned out he was a lieutenant named Generaux 😬
Chance the Lawyer6why is every headline today just explicitly like, “oh, hahahaha, yes, WE *ARE* GOING BACK!”
TelecomOne3Well, I recall a "Deep Throat" informant during the Watergate era, so...
PHL SportsNut3We desperately need to smack down the psychos running our government right now, our future depends on it.
🍁 Dan McNeil2Captain Queeg and the strawberries...
LadyPup2Major Lee Kunt reporting for duty, sir.
Deb2We don’t need an investigation of “the leak” We get everything we need to know when the POTUS & Hegseth say there’s no ammunition shortage… Yet they have to investigate who leaked the ammunition shortage story? POTUS & Hegseth need to be tested to prove they’re smarter than a fifth grader! 
Trump, Wednesday: "For the treasonous SCUM that refuses to accurately report on our Military Operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunition," NYT, today: Trump has polygraphed 50 to find out who told you Trump is lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
AntiPolygraph.org27Note that there is no documented instance of a polygraph dragnet ever actually solving a federal leak investigation.
Raymond Guiteras14I find it strange that the story never mentions that polygraphs don't work. It seems relevant that what they're doing will not actually uncover the truth.
Democracy Vibe · by NoMAGA11The polygraphs are less a way to establish the truth than a warning about the cost of revealing it. That chills the very people who might correct a propaganda claim.
David8The problem isn’t the leak. The problem is the lies. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/09/im-7...
Jameslet8I mean, Trump says they have unlimited amounts of high grade ammunition, which would be a lie each and every time any leader in the world said it.
Hassinator8land of the free, yeah?
Ailani 🌺 Brown Eye Girl18I agree with all you're sayin' girl. All of it!
TriCap7Storms of paranoia afflicting the highest levels of our military. Utter and abject failure of leadership.
One of many....3Where this happens it signals that the DOD is deeply dysfunctional. More proof Hegseth has no idea what he is doing and is doing nothing but harm!
The US government has come up with a plan to address the problem of a munitions shortage that’s primarily due to the Iran war: Devote more time and energy during wartime to finding out and punishing whoever informed the public about the munitions shortage that’s primarily due to the Iran war.
Elise Flynn9Not unlike instead of arresting a rapist, arrest the woman for reporting the rape to the police. They create new ways to destroy our country every day.
Paul Zablotski8On a mass scale, this is the “If no one else knows it didn’t happen” regime.
Mike R. v2.74We shan’t speak of the leak hunt story leaking…LOL
Lpeterp4The GOP impulse is always to suppress and coverup rather than be honest with the voters. This is a perfect example of their pathology.
jaimi.bsky.social2Countdown to new Signalgate revelations…
dgassen 🇺🇸🇺🇦2Frog march Kegseth to the proverbial guillotine 😈
Jack Graham16Also... aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha they think polygraphs work ha ha ha ha ha
View from Argus14Trump felt he had been misled about the state of US munitions, believing stockpile issue had already been resolved. During the exchange, Hegseth shifted responsibility to Dep Def Sec Stephen Feinberg, accusing him of failing to properly keep the president informed about the extent of the depletion.
progressivebeat.bsky.social7Oh boy, this is going to make our military so much stronger. Internal witch hunts while losing an illegal war. Don't worry, testosterone will fix everything.
Grandma Janet5Arrest the criminal Hegseth already.
Hegseth's Pentagon straps about 50 officers from the Joint Staff to lie detector machines to investigate leaks and intimidate senior military in what appears to be an unprecedented mass polygraph blitz. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Rick does Math and Stuff25Regular reminder that absolutely no science supports lie detector machines.
helchose.bsky.social23And news about the polygraph was then subsequently leaked
mike jolkovski18It’s a Soviet-era joke: if you announce that the leader (of DoD, in this case) is an incompetent sack of shit, you are prosecuted for sharing state secrets
Daphne_du Maurier17Humiliating those officers which is probably the point .
Not-a-Bot16Check Whiskey Pete’s Signal account
Code Junkie8He's a cartoon character version of the incompetent military leaders made fun of in movies like Dr. Strangelove.
Angry Staff Officer111Clearly, everything is fine and not a complete, avoidable mess
public health guy55this immediately leaking + the fact that polygraphs are pseudoscience and do not work =
Jeffrey Vagle10No, *your* empire is crumbling!
Nick Kodama9"I'm not mad about leaks. Please don't leak to the press that I'm mad about leaks."
phyphor5It should be worth bearing in mind that polygraphs *do not work*!
Susan of Texas5The funny thing is that he thinks lie detectors are always accurate. The other funny thing is that he pissed off 50 senior officers.
Don Dechert3Polygraph's continued survival in natsec always seems a tad baffling, given its questionable accuracy, false positives, etc. The fact that it hangs around despite being pseudo-science should be more of an indictment of rigidity and the allure of pseudoscience.
Just so we all have this straight. Trump has repeatedly called it "FAKE NEWS" that our military has depleted stockpiles of munitions due to the Iran war. At the same time, the Pentagon is engaging in a massive hunt for those who leaked that story to the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Dr_Moreau18962It sounds like someone leaked the news about the polygraphs being given to find those who leaked the depleted munitions news. The incompetence in the DoD begins at the top. Hegseth needs to be removed immediately.
Mike Friedman2Polygraphs are non-scientific garbage. WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO USE THEM? They are utter and complete nonsense and always have been. They tell you absolutely nothing about a person.
Happy-go-Loki.1Not one of the guys in the current Administration has ever been accused of being the smartest guy in a room…
wizard prang1Fake News is what he calls every story that he doesn't like. & his skin is getting thinner every day. Will any of those clowns in a place of power stop him? I doubt it.
Jack Kuenzie1Nine out of ten chance anything he says is 180 degrees from the truth. That in mind, we have a munitions supply problem.
In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
MandyLoon17Major Leak, he's over in personnel.
bellaciao007.bsky.social6Ominous but not surprising. The funny thing is the news reinforces the fact thst Hegseth is in deep trouble. He can Death Of Stalin his way to being the worst SecDef in American history.
Perpetually confused4Doesn’t seem to have worked.
Lurch Adams4Testosterone for brains: - missile purchases and production rates are public knowledge, - high USN SM2/SM6 expenditure was noted in late 2025, - by March 2026 it was known more Patriots had been fired in the first week of the Iran war than in the 4 years of the Ukraine war.
SailorLife3Sucks to be wholly owned by a psychotic, tyrannical regime.
Furioso Veteranus2polygraphs are more about the examiner and process then the machine. To the tech there is no difference between lying or having gas. It's a mind fuck that can be beaten.
U.S. govt investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, including about how the Iran war has created a shortage of crucial munitions. Gift link NY Times www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Lee West19Note: Polygraph (lie detector) test results are generally not admissible as evidence in court because their scientific reliability remains widely questioned. Buy don’t bother telling that to paranoid drunk Hegseth. What an insult to our top commanders. Impeach Hegseth.
amaruq909ca🍁2There is a new ad for recruiting... "We will do polygraphs if we don't like you" and "for a bonus we will publicly shame you for being sympathetic or have have empathy!"
twitterkwitter.bsky.social2I’d resign, or call the ACLU. Being in the military does mean you don’t still have rights. And doesnt the Pentagon train people to beat polygraphs?
Pentagon orders polygraph tests for Joint staff. The leak is kegsbreath and his fucking Signal problem. 1/5
MeeMawFella SezWhut 🦥☕🚬4That's when you know for sure you've found the right workplace for you... when they crack out the polygraphs... There's really no better way to show your workforce you trust their judgement (and your own!) than with mandatory truth detector retreats. Warm, fuzzy feelings all around, amirite
eyeconic.me2The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Dorn Dog1As Dalton Trumbo wrote in his enlightening, terrifying novel “Johnny Got His Gun” (which used to be required reading in high schools). “You point the way, 'Oh Masters of War’ - and we’ll point the guns"
