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.
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Warui yatsu, dare?
WHY BOTHER?!? AG Sessions won't prosecute anyone even if they lie.
A lie detector test!? That’s the best that Jeff Feckless can do? How about a Grand Jury, indictments, and prosecutions? Oh, that’s right - Jeff is a coward.
Waterboarding would be better................
Steve Bannon did a CBS Charlie *pompuos ass* Rose interview. Telling. Bannon named *leakers*. Stabbed at the entrenched GOP swampsters.
Another way to assess the responses to the polygraph test is to have 2 trained officials; one on either side in front of the one taking the test, watching the eye movements closely.
This is probably a hail Mary attempt at deterrence, or getting a few of the guilty to resign “on principle” to avert further investigation. Unfortunately the leakers know, or will once Democrat lawyers have their way with them, that polygraph tests are unreliable and the results inadmissible in court. The news media will spew anti-polygraph stories to give any shameless liars cover. But any sign of life out of AG Sessions is better than none.
And use Brawndo...it's got what "plants" crave.
That would have happened years back. Been there, done that.
About damn time. And when he’s done with the NSA he can start on the CIA and the FBI. <<<
the shit is always thickest at the bottom of the “SEWER”....the “Troops” are just following orders
Its the shit that rises to the top that get to escape in the leach fields...
It would be nice to have a competent FBI to investigate but they jumped the shark.
(hint:..Its not a lie “detector”).....lol
I watched enough shows like “Forensic Files” to know that lie detector tests are no better than 50% right. It is the same odds as flipping a coin. They shouldn’t even be legal for authorities to use.
“This chicken shit wants to have lie detector tests for these people but won’t go after Lois Lerner, the IRS, or Hillary?”
“F U Jeff Sessions!”
I agree.
Maybe they let Lerner skate, because she was told to engage in criminal by someone (Obama) and they don't want that fact to blow up in court.
so who leaked this?
(BTW....Ive never seen “laid back” Charlie so confrontational ...its very telling...)
most of the CIA and like positions already take regular polygraph interviews.
Maybe, but it could be fake news, we'll see.
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