A current adviser to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth alerted senior officials in the Trump administration of the use of polygraphs to find leakers at the Pentagon.

The White House was forced to intervene to put an end to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s routine use of polygraph tests on his own staff. According to The Washington Post, a top aide to the Defense chief complained to the White House that he could be subject to a lie detector as Hegseth’s campaign to stamp out the endless Pentagon media leaks raged.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to stop Pentagon media leaks faced White House resistance after a senior aide, Patrick Weaver, objected to potential polygraph tests. Weaver's concerns, backed by Stephen Miller,