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Friday, Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump appeared in the oval office To attack the New York Times for their report that Elon Musk had to obtain a secret briefing from Hegseth about the American war plan if there was a conflict with China.
Trump said: “Well, these are all the news that is not able to print. They have false sources, or they have no sources, I think they do most, but it was a invented story of the New York Times. I call it failure. He is a failing newspaper that he fails and they should not do that they are really the enemy of people and something else.”
Trump and his administration are pathological liars, so their protests suggested that the history of Times was probably true.
What the administration then does seems to be more confirmation.
Bloomberg News reported:
The Pentagon launched an investigation incorporating polygraphic tests to track down leaks after Elon Musk called for the pursuit of any manager of the Ministry of Defense spreading “mischievous information” on his relations with the army.
In response to the accusations surrounding the recent visit of Musk to the Pentagon, the chief of staff of the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, Joe Kasper, called for an investigation into “unauthorized disclosure” of national information on security with those who have been responsible for “being referred to the appropriate entity of application of criminal law for criminal prosecution”.
How can there be a leak if the story is false?