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According to a report, the White House pulled the plug for the use of polygraph tests of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Washington Post reported that Patrick Weaver, a current advisor to Hegseth, alerted the high -ranked administration officials that they could soon present a polygraph test, Washington Post reported. This made a call to Hegseth to release lies detector tests.
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Weaver, who first played a role in the Homeland Security Department in the National Security Council of the White House and during the first administration of President Donald Trump, committed a crime on possible measures.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (C) arrives for a news conference at Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia on 22 June 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Investigation of identification of leikar within the Defense Department began at the end of March with a memorandum by Casper, then the Chief of Staff of Hegseth.
Casper wrote in the memo of March 21, “The recent unauthorized revelations of national security information included immediate and completely in the investigation with the principal within the office of the defense.”
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“The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be according to the applied law and policy,” Casper said.
The White House and Pentagon did not immediately respond to the request of Fox News for comments.
Pentagon in Washington, DC, on 10 May, 2023, in an aerial scene. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Image)
The revelation is the latest controversy in the Pentagon, which ended the ‘Signalgate’ scam earlier this year. The discussion about military action between a group of Hegseth and Trump officials was leaked despite being held on the encrypted app.
The then National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accepted “full responsibility” to include Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of Atlantic Editor, which was included on signal chat with Vice President JD Vance, State Secretary Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe and Hegsith on signal chat on signal chat.
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After a casual leakage for a journalist to adjacent to American military attacks on Hauthi targets in Yemen, Trump remains strongly in Hegseth’s corner, offering public support.
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