The Trump Administration’s Lie-Detector Campaign Is More Likely to Hurt than Help National Security
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, JUL 9 – The administration increased polygraph tests across agencies despite scientific consensus questioning their reliability, risking diversion from key national security tasks, experts say.
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'Don't lie': Why Trump's obsession with weeding out leakers will fail
By Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, aimed at uncovering leaks to the press.As someone who has taken roughly a dozen polygraphs during my 27-year career with the CIA,...
Trump administration's lie detector campaign against leakers is ...

Trump administration’s lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed and could divert energy from national security priorities
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI are reportedly using polygraphs aggressively to identify dissenters. standret/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, aimed at uncovering leaks to the press. As someone who has taken roughly a dozen polygraphs during my 27-year career with the CIA, I read this development with some skepticism. Polygraphs carry…
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