About 50 Joint Staff and War Department officials were given polygraph tests last month as part of an investigation into leaks about depleted munitions stockpiles during the Iran conflict. No one failed the tests, according to a CBS News report. Trump has denied that U.S. munitions stockpiles are actually low.
LL outlets (NYT, Al Jazeera) frame the polygraph campaign as an unprecedented, aggressive crackdown that reflects broader dysfunction and distrust inside the Pentagon under Hegseth, linking it to firings at Stars and Stripes, generals being pushed out, and Trump's rhetoric branding critical coverage as 'treasonous.'
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LR outlets (New York Post) frame the story more narrowly around the leak investigation itself, emphasizing that no one failed the polygraphs, that Trump was 'furious' about the leaks, and giving more space to Trump's own denials that munitions stockpiles are actually depleted.