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FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts
The Washington Post ^ | APRIL 28, 2025 | Ellen Nakashima and Hannah Natanson

Posted on 04/28/2025 8:40:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: subterfuge

Yep


41 posted on 04/29/2025 6:49:28 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Indeed

Page 2 in Propaganda Manual

Creating a climate of fear and harming national security.


42 posted on 04/29/2025 6:57:21 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Current and former officials say the crackdown is creating a climate of fear and harming national security.

Who knew that leaking national security info to the media was GOOD for national security?

43 posted on 04/29/2025 6:58:54 AM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts”

so what? nothing new here ... my understanding is that the CIA at one time (might still for all i know) REQUIRE random polygraphs a couple of times a year ... it’s a good idea ... polygraphs are voodoo science, but are great instruments for provoking guilt and panic in the guilty, at least the ones who aren’t sociopaths ...


44 posted on 04/29/2025 7:58:54 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
in some cases using polygraph tests that current and former officials say are creating a climate of fear and intimidation.

...because they feeeeel they should be entitled to lie and leak with impunity.

45 posted on 04/29/2025 9:32:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: DAC21

Yes. I am someone who believes everything has a duality associated with it.

A hammer can be used to build a beautiful coffee table, or to bash someone’s brains in.

A polygraph in the hands of someone searching for truth can be a valuable tool.

But a polygraph in the hands of someone intending to use it for evil purposes, as Leftists often do for the illegal purposes you mention, to discriminate or punish inappropriately, is a terrible and disgusting thing.

I trust the polygraph as a tool in the hands of someone using it appropriately to enforce the law for good purposes as I fully expect is being done by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

I have zero trust in a polygraph test arranged and run by Christopher Wray, James Comey, or Andrew McCabe, as they have demonstrated they could not be trusted in a position of power.

If someone takes issue with my last two paragraphs, then they are drawing a moral equivalence between the likes of Comey and Patel (that is the ONLY conclusion I can come to) and that person’s opinion has no meaning to me, because they are unable to make that key distinction.

And it isn’t because Patel and Bongino are “my guys” on my side of the political fence.

It is because Patel and Bongino are not only on the side of right, they are on the side of the Constitution.


46 posted on 04/29/2025 10:51:02 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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...in some cases using polygraph tests that current and former officials say are creating a climate of fear and intimidation...

I am pretty sure this is nothing new and polygraphs have been in standard use for employees of the "intelligence community" since forever.

47 posted on 04/29/2025 12:28:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ I am pretty sure this is nothing new and polygraphs have been in standard use for employees of the “intelligence community” since forever”

Many people who work in the intelligence agencies are professionally trained liars. If anyone can beat a polygraph test, it would be them.


48 posted on 04/29/2025 12:41:02 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: cgbg

Agreed completely


49 posted on 04/29/2025 12:44:08 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: Secret Agent Man

It isnt.like they are asking personal questions. I imagine it’s about a specific leak.


50 posted on 04/29/2025 12:48:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: rlmorel

Sometime last year I remember Bongino on his show saying that extensive use of polygraphs in the intel community is essential to root out the traitors. Oh, and a guilty bastard is dead meat in the hands of a skilled polygraph operator.


51 posted on 04/29/2025 4:31:59 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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I am sure Dan Bongino knows of what he speaks on this subject.

When he went back to work as the Deputy Director of the FBI, that just blew me away.

That is a historically great man. He would have been right at home with the Founders of this nation.

Bongino has pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor to do his part to save this country.


52 posted on 04/29/2025 6:13:33 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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I have great confidence in Trump’s chain of command: Bondi, Kash and Bongino.

I wanted justice for the Deep State criminals but I’ll settle for revenge.


53 posted on 04/29/2025 6:36:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: rlmorel

I couldn’t agree with you more on everything you said.

It is sedition, sedition in furtherance of an insurrection.
At a minimum, this insurrection began with Crossfire Hurricane.

Frankly I saw Algore’s challenge to the 2000 election to be an attempted coup, by the Democrats, on the U.S. government.
They just hadn’t planned it out very well at that time.


54 posted on 04/29/2025 7:26:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: TigersEye

Right on, FRiend.

Right on.


55 posted on 04/29/2025 7:33:38 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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