The Associated Press reports. Excerpt:
WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI Director Louis Freeh and his senior deputies will take lie-detector tests as part of stepped-up security procedures following the arrest of a veteran FBI agent charged with spying for Moscow over a period of 15 years.
“The director always includes himself in whatever policy applies to FBI employees,” John Collingwood, an FBI spokesman, said Friday. “He will exercise the same leadership in regard to the expansion of the polygraph policy.”
Louis J. Freeh needn’t read The Lie Behind the Lie Detector to learn how to protect himself from a false positive outcome. No FBI polygrapher in his right mind is going to accuse the boss of deception. If our national leaders truly believe that holding polygraph séances is the way to root out spies, then an independent National Polygraph Agency — whose agent-polygraphers will be beholden to no one — must be established to exorcise spies from all levels of government — including the United States Congress.