Why the Pentagon Is Doing Polygraphs, and Officials Prepare to Release Huge Set of 9/11 Documents
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From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Will Jarvis, Infracy Mumford. Today's Tuesday, September eighth. Here's what we're covering. We're going to start with three updates on the Trump administration from over the long weekend. First, the Times has learned that at the Pentagon, dozens of military officers and civilian workers have been given polygraph tests as part of an investigation into leaks to the press. The search happened last month after a flurry of news reports that detailed how the war in Iran has depleted the military's stockpiles of critical munitions like interceptor missiles. Around fifty Pentagon employees were hooked up to the polygraph machines and questioned about whether they shared classified information with journalists.
It was the first time in modern history that mass polygraph tests have been given to the top ranks of the US military. People with knowledge of the investigation say it seems to have two goals one, find who leaked the information, and two, intimidate others so they don't leak in the future. The leaks had fueled an atmosphere of deep distrust and paranoia inside the Pentagon, that current and former defense officials say has been stoked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Since last year, the Pentagon has conducted a number of leak investigations, and Hegseth has consolidated his control over the military by firing senior officers he sees as disloyal. In response to questions from the Times, a Pentagon spokesman said the department does not comment on internal matters, but that securing classified information is quote critical to ensuring the security of the United States and of our troops deployed around the world.
Also, the White House is moving to change a federal child care subsidy in an effort to promote a more traditional view of families. The plan would tap into a fund that's designed to help low-income parents afford childcare so they can go to work or school. It gives roughly $9,000 a year per child, and health department data shows that currently most people getting the subsidies are single mothers. But in an effort championed by Vice President, President J.D. Vance, the new plan would expand those benefits to couples where one person stays at home to raise kids. The couples would have to be married. The change would effectively create a government incentive for parents not to work as part of a broader conservative movement to advance policies that promote mothers staying at home.
Critics say the policy proposal could hurt single parents and end up redirecting money away from childcare providers, potentially forcing them to raise prices or even shut down. And last update,
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in New Mexico. There's been quick and intense backlash to President Trump's suggestion that the state be renamed New America. Over the weekend, Trump and the White House shared posts promoting the idea, which comes on the heels of the administration's move to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and Lake Ontario Lake America. But unlike those moves, which were carried out through the Federal Geographics Name Database, Trump has no legal authority to rename New Mexico or any other state. Any renaming would require changing New Mexico's constitution, and the state's democratic leaders said there's absolutely no way they would consider doing that.
In New York City today, officials are set to release more than one hundred and seventy thousand pages of previously unseen documents about the air quality at ground zero in the aftermath of september eleventh.
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