This short Associated Press report, found on FoxNews.com, is cited here in full:
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A central New York congressman said he would be willing to take a lie detector test as part of the FBI’s probe into intelligence leaks.
Republican Sherwood Boehlert — a member of the House Intelligence Committee — dismissed concerns expressed by some colleagues who say polygraph exams on lawmakers would be inappropriate.
Critics of the idea say it raises constitutional issues involving the separation of the legislative and executive branches of government.
But Boehlert told Binghamton radio station WNBF that the FBI has asked him whether he would submit to a lie detector test and he said he would. The Utica-area congressman added that he doubts he’ll actually have to submit to such a test.
Boehlert said national security is too important to allow a policy debate to interfere in the effort to find who’s been leaking sensitive information.