[kristinn]

Comrades, what shall we do with these refuseniks--Gitmo or Gulag?

[tet68]

Lamp post.

[chnsmok]

Wouldn't this make a great America's Most Wanted show? I think this is going to be interesting. The FBI always gets their man (that they want to get)!

[SCHROLL]

public flogging, then to Leavenworth

[Pokey78]

BTTT

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Imagine for one moment, you or I refusing to take an FBI polygraph test in a criminal leak involving a national security related matter...

[coloradan]

When special forces soliders, who are trained to deal with enemy interrogators, testify under polygraph conditions that they missed the action at Waco, they had gotten too drunk and slept through it, and anyway hadn't heard that any shots were fired by government agents, that's proof enough for Congress right there that nothing sinister at Waco happened.

But when Congressional agents, who are politicians and not soldiers, and only know the lies they are used to telling to be reelected, are pressed to take polygraphs by reason of leaking classified information, they dismiss the requests and criticize the tests as being unreliable.

Double standard, anyone?

[cynicom]

The blabber mouth blowhards are unhappy???? Aint that a shame.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

What's the point in proving that 37 politicians lie when we knew that anyways? And are not these the ultimate oxymorons:

Senate Intelligence and House Intelligence

[Salvation]

(Many Spurn Polygraph Requests...)

Is there a reference list?

Which one, then, is the leaky member of the committee?

[cynwoody]

The polygraph is nonsense. The most sensible remark in its favor was Nixon's observation that "I don't know anything about lie detectors other than they scare the hell out of people".

If you're interested, you can download a free and fascinating 176 page book on beating the lie detector from this site.

[glorygirl]

bump

[Winston Smith]

Oh I think a HUGE pay-per view market could be generated if this event ever were to occur. I wouldn't pay $10 to see the Stones but to watch a lie detector test of 37 legislators I would pay BIG!!!

I would pay even more to bid on questions to ask the buggers!!

[wingnuts'nbolts]

A light coating of hot tar and feathers comes to mind followd by a ride on a donkey to the pillory for display and individual citizen's scorn. Rotten tomatoes and cabbage throwing to be encouraged.

[NEPA]

Although the chairmen of the intelligence committees, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), asked the FBI to conduct the inquiry, its unprecedented scale has angered some lawmakers,

Apparently they thought it was going to be a Clinton era DOJ whitewash. Ashcroft has disappointed me, but this article indicates to me that he and Mueller must be doing something right.

[George Maschke]

Anyone who thinks that lie detector "testing" is a good idea doesn't know about "the lie behind the lie detector."

[Wm Bach]

Why not just test Leahy first and save a lot of time and trouble?

[AdA$tra]

Let see, I think it goes something like this: "If you are't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." I think that is what congress says every time they add some new instrusive power to the FBI's bag of tricks. Polygraphs are a joke as far as accuracy, but non-the-less are a powerful tool for ferreting out RATS.

[AdA$tra]

Oh, and while we are at it, we should start drug testing congress. You think bus and train drivers are in mission critical decision making positions, how about the Senate Intel Committee. They are driving our national security bus.

[mewzilla]

Chuck Hagel was on FOX this morning sputtering about the proposed polygraphy. What a slime. National security concerns apparently don't even appear on his radar screen when it the defense of it might offend his dignity. Grrrr....

[Wurlitzer]

"The lawmakers are unhappy that the FBI, an agency they oversee, is investigating them. "

Screw these bums. They, like the FBI, work for us! They seem to forget that as soon as they are elected.