The Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs, better known as the Webster Commission, has delivered its report to the Attorney General, and it may now be downloaded as a 1.14 MB Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file from the U.S. Department of Justice website at: http://www.usdoj.gov/05publications/websterreport.pdf Substantive discussion of polygraph policy begins at p. 67 … Read more
Kelli Arena and Carol Cratty of the CNN Washington Bureau report. This short article is cited here in full: WASHINGTON (CNN) — The FBI is asking key scientists involved in the anthrax investigation to take polygraph tests, federal officials said Friday. The voluntary exams, which gauge the subject’s truthfulness, mark authorities latest attempt to find … Read more
Brian Ross reports in an ABCNEWS.com article titled, “No Suspects, Few Clues.” Excerpt: April 4 — Six months after the government first said a man in Florida was sick with anthrax, which later killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, federal investigators say they have no suspects and few clues. The FBI asked … Read more
Kansas City Star correspondent Kevin Murphy reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – All but a few of 700 FBI agents and employees passed lie detector tests as part of an internal security overhaul at the bureau, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. Mueller outlined for reporters the FBI’s broad plan for preventing security lapses, such as those that … Read more
Los Angeles Times staff writers Eric Lichtblau and Richard A Serrano report. Excerpt: WASHINGTON — FBI officials said Wednesday that thousands of employees may be subjected to polygraph tests in an effort to plug holes in security–holes so glaring that even convicted spy Robert Philip Hanssen now says he should have been caught years earlier. … Read more
New York Times correspondent David Johnson reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON, April 3 – About seven F.B.I. employees with access to highly classified information have been unable to pass polygraph examinations administered as part of the bureau’s stepped-up security program after the arrest last year of a senior agent as a Russian spy, F.B.I. officials said today. … Read more
Reuters correspondent James Vicini reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As many as seven FBI employees with access to highly classified information face more investigation after taking polygraph tests given to tighten security following the discovery of a Russian spy within the FBI, officials said on Wednesday. “We have identified up to 700 persons who were … Read more
Associated Press writer Ted Bridis reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday promised broader use of lie detectors and a closer check of employee financial records to help deter or catch spies within America’s elite law enforcement agency. Mueller acknowledged delicate issues of privacy and trust. But he said FBI employees must … Read more
Laura Sullivan of the Baltimore Sun reports in an article titled, “FBI sets its bar high for aspiring agents.” Excerpt: Just to be considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens between ages 26 and 36, with at least three years of full-time work and a four–year college degree. Those who qualify undergo a series of written … Read more
The Associated Press reports on counterespionage measures adopted by the FBI in the wake of the Hanssen affair, including a discussion of the Bureau’s counterintelligence-scope polygraph program. Excerpt: Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster is wrapping up a massive review of the FBI’s internal security in the aftermath of the Robert Hanssen spy case. … Read more