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on friday, Defense Secretaries Pete Hegses and Donald Trump appeared in the oval office The New York Times attacks for their report that in the event of a conflict with China, Elon Musk is set to get a secret briefing from Hegses about the US war plan.
Trump said, “Well, it’s all the news that’s not suitable for printing. I think they have fake sources or they’re making it pretty much, but I think this was a structured story of The New York Times. I call it a failure.
As Trump and his administration are pathological liars, their protests suggested that the Times story is likely to be true.
What the administration is doing next seems like more confirmation.
The Pentagon has launched an investigation that incorporates polygraph tests to hunt down the leak after calling for the prosecution of Department of Defense officials who spread “malicious and false information” about Elon Musk’s dealings with the military.
In response to Musk’s recent accusations over his visit to the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegses, Secretary of Defense Joe Casper, called for an investigation into “fraudulent disclosure” of national security information with the person in charge “will be referred to appropriate criminal law enforcement agencies for criminal prosecution.”
If the story is fake, how do some leakers get it?
