Pentagon To Polygraph “Leakers” Of Musk/China Story

CNN reports:

The Department of Defense is investigating “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information” and plans to use polygraphs as part of the probe, according to a memo published to the department’s website Friday.

“The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be in accordance with applicable law and policy,” DOD Chief of Staff Joe Kasper wrote in the memo. “This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.” Kasper wrote that “information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure” would be referred for criminal prosecution.

The memo comes after President Donald Trump pushed back on a New York Times report that DOGE head Elon Musk would be briefed on US military plans for a potential war with China while at the Pentagon on Friday.

Read the full article. So it was “fake news” that Musk was going to be briefed on the Pentagon’s plans for a potential war with China, but now they’re going to polygraph and prosecute anybody who leaked a supposedly false story? Either there’s no crime or Trump and Musk are lying.