Did the Pentagon polygraph Joint Staff members over media leaks?

Yes. According to reporting based on The New York Times, U.S. investigators put about 50 military and civilian members of the Joint Staff through polygraph tests after a series of unauthorized leaks to the press. The exams, conducted in August, focused on whether anyone shared classified details about dwindling U.S. munitions stocks during the Iran conflict, including long-range missiles and Patriot interceptors.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell told the Times the department takes national-security leaks extremely seriously and investigates them accordingly. Legal and military experts described the scale of the Joint Staff polygraph push as unprecedented in modern U.S. military history.

Source: Al Jazeera (reporting on The New York Times)

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