{"id":2871,"date":"2001-02-22T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2001-02-22T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:02:01","slug":"bill-gertz-on-use-of-polygraph-by-fbi-and-other-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/02\/22\/bill-gertz-on-use-of-polygraph-by-fbi-and-other-federal-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gertz on Use of Polygraph by FBI and Other Federal Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010222223047\/http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/default-2001222231555.htm\">&#8220;Spy case reveals FBI failings,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Washington Times<\/em> reporter Bill Gertz discusses the use of polygraph screening by the FBI and other agencies. Mr. Gertz seems to equate polygraphs with security, opening his article, &#8220;The arrest of Robert P. Hanssen on charges he spied for Moscow has exposed weaknesses in FBI internal security, including document-handling procedures and a policy of not requiring regular polygraph tests for its agents.&#8221; But Gertz does note, &#8220;A Bush administration security official said FBI agents disdained the use of polygraphs for checking the reliability of agents because they regarded them as too unreliable and &#8216;beatable&#8217; by good liars.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Spy case reveals FBI failings,&#8221; Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz discusses the use of polygraph screening by the FBI and other agencies. Mr. Gertz seems to equate polygraphs with security, opening his article, &#8220;The arrest of Robert P. Hanssen on charges he spied for Moscow has exposed weaknesses in FBI internal security, including document-handling &#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-2871","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\/2871","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=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}