WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has launched a lie-detector dragnet to comb through high-ranking military officials and identify who leaked information about US munitions stockpiles, according to US press reports.
In July, reports emerged that the United States was rationing munitions — its missile interceptors, in particular — over supply concerns after several months of fighting Iran.
Administration officials vehemently denied those reports, with President Donald Trump saying “we have a lot of ammunition, different types,” while acknowledging that “for some of the more sophisticated stuff, we’d certainly like to have more.”
Late on Friday, The New York Times reported that some 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff — the Pentagon’s planning and advisory staff — were being required to take polygraph tests as part of an investigation into how classified stockpile information made its way into journalists’ hands.
The polygraph tests aim to find out who leaked information about munition depletion to the media
