The polygraph tests of Pentagon officials occurred as the defense secretary sought to stamp out unflattering leaks to the ...

John Phelan and his chief of staff are taking control of the duties that would have gone to the future Navy undersecretary.

Suspicions about leaks and a mistrust of senior military officers have defined much of the defense secretary’s first six ...

Pete Hegseth was forced to stop polygraph testing his staff after the White House intervened on behalf of an irate Defense Department employee allied with President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.

The unexplained removal of the first female head of the U.S. Naval Academy last week is the latest in a string of top ...

The White House was forced to intervene to put an end to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s routine use of polygraph tests on his own staff. According to The Washington Post, a top aide to the Defense ...