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In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members

The New York Times · Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman, and Eric Schmitt · last updated

About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.

U.S. government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, including about how the Iran war has created a shortage of crucial munitions, according to officials briefed on the move.

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