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AG Sessions Calls For National Security Council Staff To Take Lie Detector Test To Find Leakers
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 10 September 2017 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 09/10/2017 6:09:09 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

If Attorney General Jeff Sessions has his way, National Security Council staffers will undergo lie detector tests to find White House leakers. The Trump administration has been plagued by a series of leaks, ranging from transcripts of calls between President Trump and foreign leaders to reports of palace intrigue from top White House officials.

Axios reports:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers. It’s unclear whether this will ever happen, but Sessions floated the idea to multiple people, as recently as last month.

Sessions’ idea is to do a one-time, one-issue, polygraph test of everyone on the NSC staff. Interrogators would sit down with every single NSC staffer (there’s more than 100 of them), and ask them, individually, what they know about the leaks of transcripts of the president’s phone calls with foreign leaders. Sessions suspects those leaks came from within the NSC, and thinks that a polygraph test — at the very least — would scare them out of leaking again.

Sessions has told associates he likes the idea of targeting the foreign leader phone calls because there’s a small enough universe of people who would have had access to these transcripts. Also, the idea that the President of the United States can’t have private conversations with foreign leaders was a bridge too far, even for Democrats.

Ian Prior, a spokesman for Sessions, declined comment when presented with the details of this report.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ag; agsessions; jeffsessions; sessions; third100days; trumpdoj; whleaks
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers.”

OK, so why is THIS being leaked? Are not lie detector tests routinely administered to those who hold TS clearances? Why is this something that needs to be asked permission for? Why float the idea? Just f’n DO IT.


21 posted on 09/10/2017 6:21:25 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: gaijin
WHAT would we do without it..?

Our new INNNOVATIVE, aggressive DOJ..!

22 posted on 09/10/2017 6:21:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: tennmountainman

Lie detectors are easy to cheat on, and I would certainly find these leakers the old way. That means interviewing paper work, send out fake info , and lets see who releases the fake info. Move people who was appointed by obama, or who have very liberal agendas.


23 posted on 09/10/2017 6:22:45 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: manc

Actually, it is VERY hard to cheat on them. If is was easy, they wouldn’t be that effective. Polygraph is widely used in the intelligence community, it’s about time someone suggested it be used at higher levels.


24 posted on 09/10/2017 6:23:54 PM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: manc

Not if you believe that they work.


25 posted on 09/10/2017 6:24:11 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: manc

Why not do them all?
Whatever it takes to find them.


26 posted on 09/10/2017 6:26:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: neverevergiveup

A lot of those Obama team surveillance devices are human.

The NSC is appalling. Bannon’s praise of them before he explained why he thought they were wrong was probably the only thing I disagreed with him on in the whole 60 Minutes piece.


27 posted on 09/10/2017 6:26:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Salvavida

very hard to cheat on, surely you jest. I know first hand, and many others who have cheated on lie detectors,. Al you need to know is how they work.


28 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:32 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: ASA Vet

More faux show for the common rabble.


29 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: neverevergiveup

Yep


30 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:51 PM PDT by Patriot777 ("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

How long have the leaks been happening?
How long has Sessions been in office?

This is JUST happening NOW?????????

Ain’t nothing going to come of it.


31 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:52 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This man cares nothing for the cause of liberty. His fake actions and inactions are of no interest to me.


32 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:53 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Jeezy—Is Sessions really that stupid?


33 posted on 09/10/2017 6:31:30 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

If he were serious, we would see terminations, indictments, and incarcerations.

He is not serious; he is one with them. The Swamp is in Session(s).


34 posted on 09/10/2017 6:31:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: manc

Exactly. The tests are extremely unreliable. Besides being ‘cheatable’, the ‘results’ can be fudged by the administrating party to suit their desires.


35 posted on 09/10/2017 6:31:59 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Sessions is part of it.


36 posted on 09/10/2017 6:35:52 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! 4c)
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To: TigersEye
Shuuush....it's easy to drain a “swamp”...

Its takes a bit longer when you discover a “SEWER”...and who leaks in it....

We shall see...

37 posted on 09/10/2017 6:37:51 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: IWontSubmit

add lois lerner to the list, he just let her go.


38 posted on 09/10/2017 6:38:24 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (The republican party controls all three branches of government yet the left gets everything it wants)
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To: manc

Easy enough to pay off the tester.


39 posted on 09/10/2017 6:39:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: M-cubed

Yeah, sure.


40 posted on 09/10/2017 6:40:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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