This paper has been printing Pentagon polygraphs as dormant through the catch-up week. [1] Sunday has no new test order in fetched copy. Dormant is not revived. A quiet building is not a leak hunt. Print dormant. Do not print a new exam. Leave a named directive to the edition that owns a directive.

No Sunday polygraph memo is in Pentagon copy, so dormant remains the word and a quiet building is not a leak hunt.
A dormant polygraph is still dormant. Sunday recap that treats a quiet Pentagon as a revived hunt is a feed, not a memo.
No leak-hunt schedule is in Sunday's Pentagon stack.
Sunday's wires carry no polygraph order; the desk leaves the line where it found it.

The Sept. 4 tests covered about 50 Joint Staff members, a number that made the leak hunt visible. Visibility may have been the point: polygraphs deter as much as they detect. Nine days on, deterrence is all that shows.

Nine-day deterrence is all that shows; Sunday shows it. Showing is the update. Second rounds need memos.

Polygraphs deter as much as they detect. Visibility may have been the point. A second round would need a memo.

September 4 polygraphs covered about 50 Joint Staff members and stopped there. Sunday's Pentagon pile contained no new test memo at all. Deterrence can linger without a revived hunt. Dormant is still the honest word.
Deterrence can linger without a revived hunt. Dormant is still the honest word. A second round would need a memo.

Dormant is still the honest word. Deterrence can linger without a revived hunt. A second round would need a memo.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington