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  "id": 5782832,
  "title": "Esper Raises Concern Over Pentagon Leadership Loss",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/esper-raises-concern-over-pentagon-leadership-loss",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-05T14:26:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
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    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-05/esper-raises-concern-over-pentagon-leadership-loss-video"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On Bloomberg This Weekend Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks. Esper tells hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less concerned about immediate combat readiness than the institutional impact of leadership turnover and its potential…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}