{"id":212,"date":"2009-01-18T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:50:04","slug":"controversial-justice-department-lawyer-pooh-poohs-presidential-polygraph-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/controversial-justice-department-lawyer-pooh-poohs-presidential-polygraph-prohibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Justice Department Lawyer Pooh-Poohs Presidential Polygraph Prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213\" title=\"sbradbury-100\" alt=\"Steven J. Bradbury\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sbradbury-100.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven J. Bradbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With less than a week remaining before President George W. Bush leaves office, controversial Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General <a title=\"Wikipedia - Steven G. Bradbury\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_G._Bradbury\">Steven G. Bradbury<\/a> on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 issued a <a title=\"Status of Presidential Memorandum Addressing the Use of Polygraphs\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/lbj-memo-opinion.pdf\">legal opinion<\/a> finding that a <a title=\"Use of the Polygraph in the Executive Branch\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/lbj-memo.shtml\">memorandum from President Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> to the heads of departments and agencies prohibiting use of the polygraph in the Executive Branch except under limited conditions is without legal effect. The summary of Bradbury&#8217;s opinion states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An undated four-page memorandum from President Lyndon Johnson entitled <a title=\"Use of Polygraphs in the Executive Branch\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/lbj-memo.shtml\">\u201cUse of the Polygraph in the Executive Branch\u201d<\/a>and addressed to the heads of Executive Branch departments and agencies, which was neither issued as a directive to the Executive Branch nor understood contemporaneously to have legal effect, does not now bind the Department of Justice or other entities within the Executive Branch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not clear why Bradbury, who last year <a title=\"YouTube video of Steven G. Bradbury testifying before House Judiciary Committee, 14 February 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ecdJupasSFY\">testified before Congress<\/a> against all evidence and reason that waterboarding is not torture, has issued such a legal opinion at this late stage. Nor is it clear what this opinion may portend for future polygraph policy. Bradbury&#8217;s opinion on the Johnson polygraph memorandum is at the time of writing the only Office of Legal Counsel opinion <a title=\"DOJ OLC Opinions 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090125014704\/http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/olc\/2009opinions.htm\">publicly posted<\/a> on the Department of Justice website for 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Russ Kick at <a title=\"The Memory Hole - Rescuing Knowledge, Freeing Information\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090116033022\/http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Memory Hole<\/a> reports that the Office of Legal Counsel has in recent days <a title=\"Justice\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel Belatedly Releasing Some Opinions\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090124213739\/http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/2009\/01\/justices-office-of-legal-counsel\/\" target=\"_blank\">released a slew of legal opinions<\/a> some of which had been withheld from the public for years.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that a 2002 <a title=\"The Polygraph and Lie Detection\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/publications\/10420\">research review<\/a> by the National Academy of Sciences found polygraph screening to be completely invalid, concluding 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; The Bush Administration, however, completely disregarded this damning report and instead siginificantly <em>increased<\/em> federal reliance on the polygraph. In 2008, for example, the Defense Intelligence Agency announced a <a title=\" DIA to Expand and Outsource Polygraph Screening\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/controversial-justice-department-lawyer-pooh-poohs-presidential-polygraph-prohibition\/\">plan to greatly expand its polygraph screening program<\/a> and the Department of Defense <a title=\"The Port-A-Poly Goes to Afghanistan: Fort Jackson Leader Reports Fielding of New Hand-Held Lie Detector\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/controversial-justice-department-lawyer-pooh-poohs-presidential-polygraph-prohibition\/\">began using hand-held lie detectors<\/a> in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than a week remaining before President George W. Bush leaves office, controversial Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven G. 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