Within the upper chambers of American military command, an investigation has taken a significant turn: senior members of the Joint Staff — the nation's highest uniformed advisors — are submitting to polygraph examinations as the Pentagon seeks the source of leaked intelligence about weapons stockpiles and munitions shortages. The breach, believed to concern ammunition depletion rates with direct bearing on active military operations, has prompted a counterintelligence response rarely reserved for anything short of grave institutional betrayal. In the long tension between a democracy's right to