At yesterday's (30 July 2001) confirmation hearing for FBI Director designate Robert S. Mueller III, the ranking minority member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) raised the issue of FBI polygraph screening:
Quote:Sen. Hatch: ...We understand that the FBI is now requiring polygraphs for managers handling national security matters. Are you willing to continue that uh, that approach?
Mueller: Yes.
Sen Hatch: And would you be willing to take a polygraph yourself if that, if that were the case?
Mueller: Yes. Indeed, I uh, it is my belief you don't -- this may be my training from the Marine Corps -- but you don't ask people to do that which you're unwilling to do yourself. I have already taken that polygraph.
Sen. Hatch: The only reason I ask that question is I thought you had, and I just think it's...
Mueller: [laugh]
Sen. Hatch: important. In particular...how did you do?
[general laughter]
Mueller: I'm sitting here; that's all I've got to say!
Sen. Hatch: I'm sorry, we just hope you had a good examiner, that's all....
One can be confident that President Bush's pick to be the next director of the FBI was assigned a very "good" examiner indeed, and that his "passing" was a foregone conclusion.
The confirmation hearing, which is being aired on
C-SPAN, continues this morning (Tuesday, 31 July 2001).
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