In the long struggle between institutional secrecy and the public's claim on truth, the Pentagon has taken an unusually sweeping step — subjecting roughly fifty members of the Joint Staff, the military's most senior planning body, to polygraph examinations in search of whoever disclosed classified details about the Iran conflict and America's depleted munitions stockpiles. The breadth of the investigation, rare at this level of military leadership, reflects how deeply the Defense Department feels the breach — not merely as a legal violation, but as a wound to the confidence that holds sensitiv