Telling reporters how many missiles are left in the middle of a shooting war with Iran hands the enemy a roadmap and puts American troops in the crosshairs. Leaks like that are not whistleblowing, and the people responsible belong in a courtroom, not on a source list. Finally a Pentagon is doing the hard work of tracking them down instead of just complaining about it.
Strapping roughly 50 Joint Staff officers to a polygraph machine is unprecedented intimidation dressed up as security, and even a retired Navy judge advocate general calls it unheard of. The real goal is silencing anyone who might tell the public the truth about drained munitions stockpiles. Punishing embarrassment instead of fixing the shortage is how a military loses both trust and wars.
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