{"id":136,"date":"2007-05-05T04:17:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2021-02-14T03:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:41:53","slug":"department-of-energy-to-begin-random-polygraph-screening-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/department-of-energy-to-begin-random-polygraph-screening-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Energy to Begin Random Polygraph Screening of Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Despite a 2003 finding by the National Academy of Sciences that &#8220;[polygraph testing&#8217;s] accuracy in distinguishing actual or potential security violators from innocent test takers is insufficient to justify reliance on its use in employee security screening in federal agencies,&#8221; an internal <a title=\"DOE Polygraph Program\" href=\"https:\/\/lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/doe-polygraph-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memorandum to employees<\/a> at Los Alamos National Laboratory posted on the blog, LANL: The Rest of the Story, announces the implementation of a program of random polygraph screening encompassing over 5,000 LANL employees and some 3,800 employees at Sandia National Laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, AntiPolygraph.org News <a title=\"Energy Department to Reduce Number of Employees Polygraphed\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/energy-department-to-reduce-number-of-employees-polygraphed\/\">anticipated the possibility<\/a> that DOE&#8217;s publicly announced reduction in the number of employees subject to <em>routine<\/em> polygraph screening might result in a significant ramp up of its program of <em>random<\/em> polygraph screening as the Office of Counterintelligence attempts to ensure full employment for its complement of polygraph operators. This seems to be precisely what has happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a 2003 finding by the National Academy of Sciences that &#8220;[polygraph testing&#8217;s] accuracy in distinguishing actual or potential security violators from innocent test takers is insufficient to justify reliance on its use in employee security screening in federal agencies,&#8221; an internal memorandum to employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory posted on the blog, LANL: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[287,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}