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riversedge

(78,378 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:33 AM Oct 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing a controversial new policy: random polygraph tests for Pentagon officials.

Whow. This will go over like a lead balloon!!

Oct 3, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing a controversial new policy: random polygraph tests for Pentagon officials.

🤪Navy Commander BLOWS WHISTLE on Hegseth’s SICK Pentagon Plan

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing a controversial new policy: random polygraph tests for Pentagon officials. (Original Post) riversedge Oct 3 OP

Him first. Dave Bowman Oct 3 #1

So you swear to support the Constitution or your Commander in Chief? dem4decades Oct 3 #2

So this is the secretary of defense, who doesn't even trust his own line officers. What a failure. Walleye Oct 3 #3