“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to search for people leaking information to the news media was stopped at the direction of the White House after a senior adviser to Hegseth raised alarm to senior officials there about being targeted,” the Washington Post reports.
Hegseth Told to Stop Polygraph Tests
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