Summary
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun administering polygraph tests to employees in an effort to identify individuals leaking information about immigration operations.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have blamed recent leaks for lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers.
Noem stated that two leakers had been identified and would be prosecuted, though it’s unclear if polygraphs were used.
While DHS has used polygraphs before for hiring screenings, they are now being used to question employees about leaks of classified or sensitive law enforcement information.
Glad they’re using polygraphs, they’re unreliable enough that the leakers won’t be caught.
Your regular reminder that polygraphs are junk science that arent admissible in court.
You’d be just as successful finding the truth by hiring a phrenologist to study the bumps of peoples heads.
If you’re going to rely on pseudo-scoentific bullshit, you might as well bring in some palm readers and voodoo priests instead. At least that’ll be entertaining.
EDIT - Just want to add this - Never, under any circumstances, should you take a polygraph test. If you are a suspect (legally or otherwise), they will not use the results to exonerate you. If they suspect you did it, but the polygraph doesn’t detect any deception, they will throw out the results as “unreadable” and pursue other means of investigating you. But if the results detect deception, they will treat it like the fucking Oracle at Delphi.
Seriously american obsession with this snake oil bullshit is staggering. It never worked in any reasonable extent and how could it?
The idea of detecting lying by measuring “heart rate and co” is plainly idiotic and anyone who’s part of this should be shamed into obscurity.
That might have made more sense if polygraph testing actually performed better than a dice roll. The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment and the National Academy of Sciences could’ve told DHS that, but I guess they didn’t think to ask.
Or think in general.
“To find leakers” lol nope. This is being done to fire non loyalists to Trump.
Can we perform these test on all high levels of government? “Trump are you a Russian Asset?
Well, good thing polygraph tests are just voodoo bullshit.
Doesn’t matter. They are good enough to justify denial of clearance which means loss of job.
I have no faith that lawsuits will prevail here based on precedence supporting polygraphs as a credibility and suitability discriminator.
Thats actually banana republic shit.
You bet your ass it is!
I’ve heard that if you take propranolol before the test it makes it easier to mislead the results.
Or say whatever you want since polygraphs are horse shit.
