{"id":2867,"date":"2001-02-20T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2001-02-20T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:02:01","slug":"senator-shelby-calls-for-more-lie-detector-testing-at-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/02\/20\/senator-shelby-calls-for-more-lie-detector-testing-at-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Shelby Calls for More Lie Detector &#8220;Testing&#8221; at FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In a knee-jerk reacton to the Hanssen case, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has called for increased use of polygraph screening at the FBI. In an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/news.excite.com\/news\/ap\/010220\/18\/spy-congress-reax\">&#8220;Russian Spy Case Worries Congress,&#8221;<\/a> Carol Skorneck of the Associated Press writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The arrest of a veteran FBI agent on charges of spying for Moscow shows the bureau must beef up security and regularly give lie-detector tests to all counterintelligence agents, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman said Tuesday.<\/p><p>The case of Robert Philip Hanssen, 56, could represent &#8220;a very, very, very serious case of espionage,&#8221; Republican Sen. Richard Shelby said in a telephone interview from his home state of Alabama.<\/p><p>&#8220;I think it sends a message that the FBI is going to have to be more vigilant in dealing with its own agents that are assigned to the areas of counterintelligence,&#8221; said Shelby, who said he was briefed about the case a week to 10 days ago. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know offhand if the FBI agents are routinely polygraphed or not, but if they&#8217;re dealing with counterintelligence, they ought to be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a knee-jerk reacton to the Hanssen case, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has called for increased use of polygraph screening at the FBI. In an article titled &#8220;Russian Spy Case Worries Congress,&#8221; Carol Skorneck of the Associated Press writes: WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The arrest of a veteran FBI agent on &#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":[30,70,304],"class_list":{"0":"post-2867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-robert-p-hanssen","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}