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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Nine months overdue. Glad Sessions woke up, hopefully long enough to see this through.
Then it will not be an issue. Employees will line up tomorrow morning to take it, knowing they can beat it.
Personally I don’t think it’s that easy
And McMaster too. I would not trust that man as far as I could throw him.
I had to take one in 1980, then again in ‘84. The company I was working for had some equipment on a base in the Nevada desert.
The “interview”, as the examiners preferred to call it, took place in Las Vegas in a nondescript office complex.
I can’t remember if there were two or three examiners in the test cell.
Before they attached all the probes, they asked me “Have you ever done anything wrong?”.
So, you go over your life story and they write it all down. Then they hook you up.
Once you are all hooked up, they tell you to lie to a test question. I forget what it was, something about the state where I was born. I said “you mean you want me to lie to the State of Washington?”. They said yes, and asked the question. When I lied, I could feel the big toe on my right foot curling up in my shoe, which was enough for the machine to confirm the lie.
Now the fun begins. They asked “Other than what you have already told us, have you ever done anything wrong?”. After what seemed like a full minute thinking, going over in my mind the secrets we all have, I had to stop the test to tell them to add another item to their list. We discussed it, then I was truthfully able to say “No” to their question.
When it was over, they showed me the traces on the recorder. I asked about one trace that looked like high frequency noise. They said “That’s ok, it just shows you are thinking really hard.”
When I met the others in my group, they said I’d been in there an hour and was white as a sheet.
I had to get to the bathroom. The ordeal gave me diarrhea.
Yeah, he’s like a little prairie dog that pops up out of his nest every few weeks, looks around, makes a comment, and returns underground for a nap.
Screw the lie detector test. I’d waterboard them.
Who woke him up?......
Hard to tell with all the people who have lied under oath, destroyed evidence and conspired to subvert justice enjoying life on the outside.
That’s exactly thing I said when reading the article
Lois Lerner has used her 5 the amendment right against self incrimination and cannot be forced to do a polygraph
NSC members have signed secrecy agreements that waive the 5th for national security issues. And they agree to polygraph testing on demand as a condition of employment
Session’s just trying to divert attention from no action on HRC, Comey and Lerner. I’m not falling for it. He needs to go.
Yep - they all have clearances that normally require polygraphs for the hoi polloi....
Prosecute criminals.
..Maybe we can get you elected...
My policy is too radical.
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