In the US, Congressman Crow says he was not briefed on polygraphs at the Pentagon
In the United States, Colorado Democratic Congressman Jason Crow said he had not received a briefing on a large-scale investigation into leaks of classified information at the Pentagon. According to information voiced by host Margaret Brennan in an interview on the Face the Nation program, several dozen senior representatives of the US military leadership, including commanders of combatant commands, underwent polygraph tests. The transcript of the interview was published by CBS News.
Crow, who is a senior member of the US House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said that neither he nor the committees had received information about the matter and that they knew about it only from public reports. Brennan noted that polygraph testing is a common practice, but that the number and rank of officials tested are unusual in this case.
Statements on munitions
The congressman stressed that protecting classified information and stopping leaks are important. At the same time, he criticized US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying that he had created an atmosphere of fear in the department and was trying to restrict the flow of information from the Pentagon.
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Crow also claimed that US stocks of precision-guided munitions are depleted and that replenishing them requires a long time. In his view, the administration has no long-term strategy regarding the conflict, nor a plan to stabilize markets and reduce prices for Americans.
US presence in the Middle East
Crow said that the United States should generally reduce its military presence in the Middle East, but clarified that he was not proposing to withdraw forces specifically from the US Navy's Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain. According to him, more than 50,000 US service members have been in the region since 2001, and this number can be reduced.
Separately, the congressman spoke about bipartisan efforts to expand the Special Immigrant Visa program and find ways to provide temporary protection to Afghans and Iraqis who cooperated with US forces. He called fulfilling obligations to such people a moral duty of the United States and a matter of national security.
