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.

A second round would arrive as a memo; no memo has arrived. Dormant is a status that maintains itself. Wednesday hears nothing new.

Unheard memos stay unheard; Wednesday hears none. Silence maintains status. Hunts stay dormant.

Dormant hunts stay dormant; Wednesday hears no second-round memo. Fifty Joint Staff tests remain a Sept. 4 file. No fail table.

Joint Staff polygraphs sit on a September 4 New York Times date. About fifty tests remain that prior hunt's count. The Conversation's theater verdict is not a second wave. Wednesday brought no memo that would reopen the leak hunt.
Joint Staff polygraphs sit on a September 4 Times date. Wednesday added no second hunt. Theater is not a memo.

Theater is not a memo. Wednesday's polygraph file is still September 4's hunt. Wednesday added no second leak hunt.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington