Reference News Network July 29 report According to EFE News Agency, on July 26, The Washington Post reported that the White House had to prevent the Pentagon from conducting lie detector tests. These tests were ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, aimed at detecting whether any Pentagon staff had leaked information to the media.
Multiple media reports stated that since April this year, Hegseth had threatened to conduct such tests among his department's employees.
According to The Washington Post on the 26th, citing officials and informed sources, the White House had ordered the halt of such tests. This order was issued after Hegseth's main advisor Patrick Weaver expressed dissatisfaction to the President's office.
The newspaper reported that Weaver has been considered a close ally of Stephen Miller, the deputy director of the White House Office.
After the White House called, the polygraph tests, which had continued for some time since April, were finally halted following this intervention.
The polygraph tests launched in April coincided with a particularly turbulent period at the Pentagon, during which Hegseth and other government officials had discussed U.S. strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen on the social media platform "Signal," leaking military strike plans in the group chat. In addition, Hegseth also fired three senior officials and accused them of leaking information to the media. (Translated by Liu Lifu)
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