• Basic GlitchEnglish
    16•21 days ago

    Also haven’t heard anyone mentioning this, but late on the Friday before this story was published, Hegseth’s chief of staff sent a late night memo threatening anyone that leaks classified information to the press by saying they’re going to start doing polygraph tests at DOD, and said

    “If this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then such information “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution,”

    So threatening to turn Department of Defense employees over to the authorities for leaking classified information to reporters if they fail a polygraph (which isn’t even admissible in court bc they give false positives so often).

    Then it turns out, oops the guy trying to intimidate everyone texted classified information to a reporter in a group chat and now it’s a story in the Atlantic

    https://apnews.com/article/leaks-pentagon-polygraph-trump-investigation-685b08e14d813050a722cec89eb5c323

    • @[email protected]English
      5•21 days ago

      Polygraphs aren’t scientific anyway. All you’re really doing is seeing if they’re nervous or not.

      Making someone nervous by threatening them with a polygraph is arguably more effective than the polygraph itself.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•21 days ago

      “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution” I had to check that your quote was correct, because that doesn’t seem like the words they probably meant to use. Though, now that I think of it, the current administration referring someone to a “criminal entity” is all too plausible.