AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Senior military officials subjected to polygraph tests in Pentagon leaks investigation, sources reveal
Dozens of top U.S. military leaders faced polygraph examinations this summer as the Pentagon intensified its hunt for those behind leaks of classified information on American weapons reserves, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from some officials caught in the probe. Earlier this summer, several dozen U.S. military and civilian officials, including personnel from […] The post Senior military officials subjected to polygraph tests in Pentagon leaks investigation, sources reveal appeared first on American Almanac .
Dozens of top U.S. military leaders faced polygraph examinations this summer as the Pentagon intensified its hunt for those behind leaks of classified information on American weapons reserves, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from some officials caught in the probe. Earlier this summer, several dozen U.S. military and civilian officials, including personnel from U.S. Central Command and other combatant commands, were ordered to take polygraph tests as part of an expanding national security leak investigation. The Pentagon’s extraordinary step targeted those with access to some of the nation’s most sensitive defense secrets, as officials sought to identify the source of leaks about U.S. weapons stockpiles and other classified…Open