Pentagon plans to examine officials with lie detector. Looking for those disloyal ones

The Ministry of Defense of the US plans to introduce raw clauses about maintaining confidentiality and random tests of lie detector for many people employed in the Pentagon, including high -ranking officials – revealed on Wednesday the daily Washington Post, citing two people familiar with the proposal and documents.

As the newspaper notes, this is the escalation of the actions of the defense minister Pete HegeSth towards people revealing confidential information and officials questioning the administration policy of President Donald Trump.

All staff of military services, civilian employees and contract employees in the office of the Secretary of Defense and a combined staff, whose number is estimated at over 5,000 people, will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement, which “prohibits disclosure of non -public information without consent or as part of a specific procedure” Defense of Steve Feinberg.

A separate document, also authorized by Feinberg, assumes the introduction of random tests of lies detector for these officials. The documents do not introduce a limit who would be covered by these clauses and tests, which suggests that they could apply to everyone from four -star generals to assistants in administrative positions.

The diary notes that these proposals are part a wider Trump administration strategy aimed at detecting officials who are insufficiently loyal or who provide information to journalists.

“Protection of confidential information is of fundamental importance for our national security, the safety of our soldiers and the preservation of decision space for our highest leaders,” wrote Feinberg in the Memorandum regarding confidentiality clause. Failure to comply with these principles, as he said, may result in penalties, including penalties imposed by the Military System of Justice towards service members who will not sign the memorandum.

The main spokesman for the Pentagon Sean Parnell refused to answer the “Washington Post” questions about the proposal, writing only in the email that the newspaper information is “untrue and irresponsible”. The journal, citing one of the officials who want to maintain anonymity, points out that the documents are still not signed and not dates.

“Washington Post” notes that lies detector tests are a standard procedure in intelligence as a condition of security certificate every few years, and the FBI began to use them to detect sources of leaks for the media, but the use of random tests in the Pentagon would be new. (PAP)

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