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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    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.”

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    Petey, the reason why people are leaking everything is cause the administration that you work in is a complete an utter fucking clown show.

    People want to talk about the dumpster fire on rails. The mainstream media is loving this the slow, moving horror show as everyone wants to tune in.

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    Maybe if this fuckin’ idiot would stop using unsecured communication systems, he’d have a bit more privacy.

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    Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares.

    Best news I’ve heard all week. I hope this guy also dreams his teeth are falling out.

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    Polygraphs known for being fool proof with no methods to fool that the military would have complete awareness off.

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      Just clench your sphincter every time you answer truthfully. It’ll be false negatives, all the way down.

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      I mean the military doesn’t train you on how to cheat a polygraph, but it’s also not really necessary. The polygraph is security theater and people slip by it all the time in the intelligence community without trying.

      There are unclassified quarterly audits on how effective the polygraph is at catching criminals on DOD security clearance polys. The funniest audit I saw was a guy who was smuggling drugs to Texas from Mexico since the '80s, passed a dozen polygraphs during his time doing that, and then admitted to drug running during his polygraph like 35 years later because he felt like it before retiring.

      There was an old beardy white fuck who was a polygraph examiner at my job. He swore the polygraph wasn’t security theater and that it could tell when people were lying. I’d always ask him about the quarterly audits showing people “beating” the machine for years and get into fights with him. That dude also said his job was like “welfare for white people”.