"I’ll hook you to a f**king polygraph!": Hegseth's paranoia bubbles over as Pentagon leaks continue
A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares. According to the outlet, Hegseth threatened top officials with lie-detector tests to root out media sources on recent embarrassing stories.
Narcissistic individuals become paranoid when they can't find a suitable excuse for their own failures. Because they can't admit fault, they must always externalize the cause. Something is at fault but it can't be them as avoiding fault is their most important article of psychological faith.
So, if their narcissistic coping skills are inadequate and can't construct a believable excuse, given the circumstance, they can't effectively point the finger. All that's left is the pathological, egotistical desire to point the finger away from themselves and when they can't point at anything specific? That manifests as paranoia. As they habitually dismiss their own fault, the only possibility is an unknown force that is attacking them by forcing them to experience being responsible for their own failures.
Trump and his entire administration is filled with these people. Their narcissism also makes them incompetent, so failures will continue to pile up, eventually threatening Trump himself. When Trump inevitably becomes paranoid, as there is nothing left to blame, he will use his authority to start attacking unrelated targets that he blames for his failures, hoping it will prevent the failures. But it won't. It will accelerate his failures and eventually lead to the end of him. He already blames the media, the democrats, the scientists, the public, foreign nations etc. for the failures of his leadership.
All because his ego is so malformed that he can't endure feeling responsibility for failures, while ironically seizing a position of immense responsibility, one he will inevitably fail at. His greatest failure will be his inability to endure failure.
Has Hegseth considered that he maybe leaked it himself during a drunken signal chat with a newspaper reporter?
First of all:
You should never take a polygraph test.
Hook pretty bitch Hegseth up to a breathalyzer lol
A blatantly incompetent man suggesting an even more incompetent method of investigation. Republicans sure are fucking dumb.
LOL, polygraphs are worse than useless.
More absolute stupidity from Peter Hegseth. polygraphs don't really mean much and they're not even admissible in a courtroom.
Member all those shows where polygraphs, or really any kind of tech that's advanced enough to be hard to figure out, are just called lie-detectors and treated as if they really do detect lies? Shows where the main character will poke themselves with a pin to 'trick' the polygraph, or some other kind of bullshit.
This is what your average lead brained alcoholic boomer accepts as true, because dey seen it on da teevee. A failed polygraph test is absolutely the kind of bullshit that his supporters would eat up as evidence.
That's what I'm saying. Pete Hegseth is a woefully unqualified moron.
Next up, his top psychic will tell him what to do.
it'll be like the scene in The Wire where they use a photocopier that prints "True" or "False" on a piece of paper
lol at courtroom being something fascists care about
Courtrooms are the only things preventing fascism from taking hold right now in the USA.
They are an intimidation tool so it seems he is using it appropriately
Eh... They do actually work for most people, unless they have been trained or take drugs to beat them. There is also a small portion of the population that will just throw false positives all over the place due to anxiety. Those are the reasons it's not admissible in court. People take "not admissible in court" to mean polygraphs don't work at all and are a pseudoscience, but really they work for like 95% of people.
They "work" in much the same way having a big dude standing over the questioner's shoulder playing with a crowbar works, they sometimes make the person being interrogated nervous. That's it. They're about as accurate and well regarded as phrenology.
They are about as accurate as a coin toss
right thanks for reenforcing my point . Science matters.
Where did you learn that? Can I read it?
Hegseth needs to be shit canned.
What Is Alcohol-Induced Psychosis, Alex?
Why can't this public servant, a secretary, just do his job properly.
That would require him to read and understand what his job is. It would also require him to understand the training he should have received before getting a security clearance. It would also require that he understands that by signing his SF-86 he agreed to be subject to a lengthy stay in a federal prison for leaking information.
The problem is in the job title: secretary. The implication is that the incumbent is thus "able to keep a secret" or at rather, keep their mouth shut.
This idiot can't keep his mouth shut to save his life.
The only time his mouth is otherwise occupied is when Trump's Bump of a Lump is in it.
“The extraordinary thing is that lie detector tests are being threatened not to uncover potential anti-President Trump civil servants but to catch political appointees suspected of leaking classified or sensitive information,” a source in defense told the paper.
Sorry what? How is that extraordinary? The opposite, which seems like the sources preferred suggestion, seems way worse?! Loyalty tests are not justified by anything, leaking classified information could at least be a crime providing some justification.
Well, we do know of several political appointees who leaked classified information. Didn't even need a polygraph; they just told a journalist.
Leaking classified information should not be a crime because the government should not be allowed to keep secrets from the sole source of its power.
Install a mirror in his office. He’ll find the leaker right away.
Either that or he'll get shitfaced and try to fight himself.
"Who the fffuch're yoo, Bro?! Thish ish MY fucheen offish, BRO!"
"Who's leaking all the signal chats?!" Asked Hegseth, in a hotdog costume
chronic alcoholism does cause paranoia.
Also possibly leaking. Pun intended.
might not work on drunks.
Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares.
Best news I've heard all week. I hope this guy also dreams his teeth are falling out.
Teeth falling out is a vanity dream, common among people who worry a LOT about their looks. Actors, models, government officials who need a makeup studio at the Pentagon, etc.
What if they turn into Legos after they fall out of your mouth and you build an impossible replica of the Taj Mahal out of them?
Or having braces. Everyone I know who got them had that dream at least once : you dream you finaly get to remove them and the second you do so your teeth start falling out.
Whiskeyleaks
Polygraphs known for being fool proof with no methods to fool that the military would have complete awareness off.
I mean the military doesn't train you on how to cheat a polygraph, but it's also not really necessary. The polygraph is security theater and people slip by it all the time in the intelligence community without trying.
There are unclassified quarterly audits on how effective the polygraph is at catching criminals on DOD security clearance polys. The funniest audit I saw was a guy who was smuggling drugs to Texas from Mexico since the '80s, passed a dozen polygraphs during his time doing that, and then admitted to drug running during his polygraph like 35 years later because he felt like it before retiring.
There was an old beardy white fuck who was a polygraph examiner at my job. He swore the polygraph wasn't security theater and that it could tell when people were lying. I'd always ask him about the quarterly audits showing people "beating" the machine for years and get into fights with him. That dude also said his job was like "welfare for white people".
Modern witch tests, same bullshit.
Right? The group he's threatening is likely to have plenty who can pass with flying colors.
Just clench your sphincter every time you answer truthfully. It'll be false negatives, all the way down.
Maybe if this fuckin' idiot would stop using unsecured communication systems, he'd have a bit more privacy.
You can't fix stupid.
Petey, the reason why people are leaking everything is cause the administration that you work in is a complete an utter fucking clown show.
People want to talk about the dumpster fire on rails. The mainstream media is loving this the slow, moving horror show as everyone wants to tune in.
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Waiting for the supposed 'deep state/illuminati' to 'take care' of this guy.
It’s not the staff’s fault if you’re a leaky ass.
A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares.
“I’ll hook you up to a f**king polygraph!” Hegseth reportedly yelled at Grady, per two unnamed sources who spoke with the outlet.
Seems like this anti-leak crackdown is going well.
“The extraordinary thing is that lie detector tests are being threatened not to uncover potential anti-President Trump civil servants but to catch political appointees suspected of leaking classified or sensitive information,” a source in defense told the paper.
A source who spoke to Politico characterized the situation in Hegseth's inner circle as a "knife fight."
Sounds like it's generating more leaks than it's plugging.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/15/morale/
Quote Origin: The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Appears like the most-direct original quote is from the military.
In 1961 a U.S. Navy publication called “All Hands” printed a one-panel comic depicting a naval officer addressing a group of sailors. The caption presented an instance within the family of caustic jokes about morale:
“. . . and all liberty is canceled until morale improves.”
You think he still had his glass of whisky in hand while he shouted that?
Glass, yes. Whisky, not any more.
Lmao
Talks in his sleep during his naps.