The Pentagon put about 50 Joint Staff members on polygraphs in a leak hunt. [1] The New York Times filed the tests on Sept. 4. [1] The Conversation called the method more theater than fact. [2] Wednesday has no new named round in fetched copy. A prior hunt is not a new wave. Print dormant. Do not print a second round.

Leave a named new round to the edition that owns a named new round. Silence from a spokesman is not a cleared staff. Wednesday does not invent a fail table.

Print dormant. Wednesday is not a second polygraph wave. Theater remains the Conversation's word, not a new hunt. Leave a named fail table to the edition that owns a named fail table. Print dormant as the named Wednesday leak-hunt hold.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington