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A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares. According to the outlet, Hegseth threatened top officials with lie-detector tests to root out media sources on recent embarrassing stories.

https://archive.ph/dJ74K

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares.

“I’ll hook you up to a f**king polygraph!” Hegseth reportedly yelled at Grady, per two unnamed sources who spoke with the outlet.

Seems like this anti-leak crackdown is going well.

“The extraordinary thing is that lie detector tests are being threatened not to uncover potential anti-President Trump civil servants but to catch political appointees suspected of leaking classified or sensitive information,” a source in defense told the paper.

A source who spoke to Politico characterized the situation in Hegseth's inner circle as a "knife fight."

Sounds like it's generating more leaks than it's plugging.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/15/morale/

Quote Origin: The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Appears like the most-direct original quote is from the military.

In 1961 a U.S. Navy publication called “All Hands” printed a one-panel comic depicting a naval officer addressing a group of sailors. The caption presented an instance within the family of caustic jokes about morale:

“. . . and all liberty is canceled until morale improves.”