Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper Criticizes Unprecedented Pentagon Polygraph Program

Esper Raises Concern Over Pentagon Leadership Loss

On Bloomberg This Weekend Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks. Esper tells hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less concerned about immediate combat readiness than the institutional impact of leadership turnover and its potential effect on the military’s tradition of an apolitical officer corps. (Source: Bloomberg)