00:00Trump's Pentagon witch hunt fuels new tactics from leakers.
00:04Pentagon staffers wage a quiet war, leaking more as Trump and Hegseth pursue a clumsy crusade to punish dissenters.
00:11President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also implemented a controversial plan requiring credentialed Pentagon reporters to not publish any reports, even unclassified ones, without Department of Defense approval.
00:24At Quantico, Virginia, the Defense Secretary, who recently rebranded himself the Secretary of War, rolled out controversial new standards to generals and admirals, a move critics called a waste.
00:37Trump told top military leaders he was battling the enemy from within.
00:41Then insiders said NDAs and random polygraphs were coming, a plan they say backfired as staffers practice beating tests.
00:49More than 5,000 service members, staffers and contract workers would be expected to sign new NDAs, sources claim a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, reviewed by The Washington Post, stated the alleged NDAs prohibit the release of non-public information without approval or through a defined process.
01:09One department insider branded Hegseth's plan idiotic, adding,
01:14It is clearly an attempt at intimidating everybody to just fall in line and support Trump, and this stuff only works if you let it get to you.
01:21Defense Department sources characterized the plan to shut down and punish press leaks as absurd.
01:26Trump discredited transgender service members and posted,
01:29We will not have a woke military.
01:32He later said Mark Milley could be executed for treason, prompting Senator Jack Reed's warning,
01:37He will destroy the Department of Defense, frankly,
01:40He will go in, and he will dismiss generals who stand up for the Constitution.
01:44Following the controversial Quantico address, critics slammed Trump and Hegseth as disrespectful and unfit for office,
01:51citing Hegseth's Signalgate, a reported makeup studio request at the Pentagon, and personal scandals.
01:57Despite calls for Trump to fire Hegseth, insiders claim the president won't cut ties because both believe the military has been compromised by liberals.
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