Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-75 next last
To: gaijin

Warui yatsu, dare?


41 posted on 09/10/2017 6:42:42 PM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
"AG Sessions Calls For National Security Council Staff To Take Lie Detector Test To Find Leakers"

WHY BOTHER?!? AG Sessions won't prosecute anyone even if they lie.

42 posted on 09/10/2017 6:43:55 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

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.


43 posted on 09/10/2017 6:46:32 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Waterboarding would be better................


44 posted on 09/10/2017 6:46:43 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: M-cubed

Steve Bannon did a CBS Charlie *pompuos ass* Rose interview. Telling. Bannon named *leakers*. Stabbed at the entrenched GOP swampsters.


45 posted on 09/10/2017 6:48:08 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Salvavida

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.


46 posted on 09/10/2017 6:48:29 PM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: ASA Vet

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.


47 posted on 09/10/2017 6:49:55 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Osage Orange
Waterboarding would be better................

And use Brawndo...it's got what "plants" crave.

48 posted on 09/10/2017 6:50:34 PM PDT by cabojoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

That would have happened years back. Been there, done that.


49 posted on 09/10/2017 6:51:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (Victorious warriors WIN first, then go to war! Go TRUMP!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hinckley buzzard

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...


50 posted on 09/10/2017 6:57:56 PM PDT by M-cubed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It would be nice to have a competent FBI to investigate but they jumped the shark.


51 posted on 09/10/2017 7:02:44 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: manc
Yup...and all I need to know is if you tell the truth.....With my gun pointed at your temple...Get it yet???

(hint:..Its not a lie “detector”).....lol

52 posted on 09/10/2017 7:08:17 PM PDT by M-cubed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

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.


53 posted on 09/10/2017 7:10:38 PM PDT by Revel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: unixfox

“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.


54 posted on 09/10/2017 7:13:22 PM PDT by DrPretorius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan
add lois lerner to the list, he just let her go.

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.

55 posted on 09/10/2017 7:16:23 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

so who leaked this?


56 posted on 09/10/2017 7:17:43 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Daffynition
He did more then that!!!....He cut them to pieces if you see the WHOLE interview!!!....60 Minutes chopped the interview more then Hamburger!!....To feed the masses...

(BTW....Ive never seen “laid back” Charlie so confrontational ...its very telling...)

57 posted on 09/10/2017 7:18:17 PM PDT by M-cubed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: hinckley buzzard

most of the CIA and like positions already take regular polygraph interviews.


58 posted on 09/10/2017 7:18:23 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: TigersEye
He's alive!!!

Maybe, but it could be fake news, we'll see.

59 posted on 09/10/2017 7:20:40 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: manc
and all I need is an answer to 1..(ONE) question that you dont know i do.... with my gun to your head..your body WILL react....lol
60 posted on 09/10/2017 7:26:32 PM PDT by M-cubed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-75 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson