Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon staffers are laughing at his “idiotic” plans to curb press leaks.

The self-anointed “Secretary of War” has been ramping up efforts to stop embarrassing stories from leaking out of the Pentagon, going so far as to reportedly greenlight a policy requiring staffers to undergo random polygraph tests.

But Hegseth’s plans appear to be backfiring. Staffers are responding by leaking even more information in an effort to further humiliate the 45-year-old Pentagon leader, according to three Defense Department officials and two other sources familiar with the situation who spoke to Zeteo.

“It’s idiotic,” one Defense Department official told the publication. “It is clearly an attempt at intimidating everybody to just fall in line and support Trump, and this stuff only works

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