As The Washington Put up reported, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and his workforce have been ordered to stop polygraphs to cease leaks to the company media after an adviser complained to the White Home.
The adviser in query, Patrick Weaver, complained to White Home officers this spring that he was frightened about being directed by Hegseth or one other member of his workforce to undergo a polygraph check. Hegseth’s workforce began administering polygraph checks to folks across the protection secretary in April.
The White Home then intervened to cease the apply through a telephone name by a person near the administration. The Put up refused to call this individual.
The Washington Put up reported:
The White Home intervention, which has not beforehand been reported, got here within the type of a telephone name by a person near the administration after Hegseth’s workforce had begun administering polygraph checks to folks across the protection secretary in April, in accordance with folks accustomed to the matter, who declined to establish the person.
Earlier than they had been stopped, a number of checks had been carried out over a number of weeks with approval by Hegseth and recommendation from Tim Parlatore, who has served as each Hegseth’s personal lawyer and a part-time navy aide on his employees.
Weaver had beforehand served as a Republican congressional employees member and as an aide within the first Trump administration on the White Home’s Nationwide Safety Council and within the Division of Homeland Safety. He stays an adviser to Hegseth.
By the point he approached the White Home, polygraph checks already had been administered to members of the Joint Service Interagency Advisory Group (JSIAG), a workforce in Hegseth’s entrance workplace that was assembled to look at methods to counter drug cartels and improve safety on the southern border, folks accustomed to the matter mentioned.
The Washington Put up notes that Weaver is taken into account a loyalist to Trump and is an affiliate of White Home Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller.
Weaver can be a hardliner on immigration.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell responded to the report with anger.
“The Division is not going to touch upon an ongoing investigation,” Parnell mentioned in a written assertion. “The Pretend Information Media’s obsession with months outdated office gossip is a mirrored image of the unhappy and pathetic state of ‘journalism’ in Washington.”
Hegseth ousted three aides for leaking again in April. These aides had been Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll.
Regardless of Hegseth’s actions, the leaks have continued.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra MacDonald beforehand reported, the Pentagon introduced an investigation again in March into current “unauthorized disclosures” of nationwide safety data, which can embrace using polygraph checks on Division of Protection personnel.
Hegseth’s then-chief of employees, Joe Kasper, despatched a memo to DOD employees letting them know that they could be topic to lie detector checks.
“Latest unauthorized disclosures of nationwide safety data involving delicate communications with principals throughout the Workplace of the Secretary of Protection (OSD) demand quick and thorough investigation,” the memo learn, in accordance with a report from The Hill.
“I request the immediate help of your Director for Protection Intelligence (Counterintelligence, Legislation Enforcement, and Safety) to help OSD in main an investigation into unauthorized disclosures in coordination with the suitable Division of Protection (DoD) stakeholders, together with these accountable for sustaining and overseeing data safety methods and in coordination with federal companions as required,” the memo continued.
The announcement’s timing prompted hypothesis that it could be a few New York Occasions report that Elon Musk was slated to obtain a briefing on U.S. navy methods for a hypothetical conflict with China throughout a go to to the Pentagon.
Musk and President Donald Trump each claimed that the report was false. The X proprietor mentioned it was “pure propaganda” and referred to as for prosecuting these leaking “maliciously false data” to the media.
Different members of the Trump Administration have used polygraphs to search out leakers to the press, together with FBI Director Kash Patel.
