{"id":2879,"date":"2001-02-22T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2001-02-22T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:02:01","slug":"fbi-to-start-polygraph-tests-following-spy-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/02\/22\/fbi-to-start-polygraph-tests-following-spy-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FBI to Start Polygraph Tests Following Spy Probe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>CNN.com <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20011005094837\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/US\/02\/22\/fbi.spy.02\/index.html\">reports<\/a> that the FBI has decided to proceed with a program of randomly polygraphing all of its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As a symbolic gesture, officials said the first employee tested will likely be Director Louis Freeh, followed by the deputy director and other assistant directors.<\/p><p>Officials admitted there is a cultural stigma to overcome at the bureau. &#8220;When CIA employees hear polygraph, they think &#8216;normal course of doing business&#8217;,&#8221; one FBI official said. &#8220;But when our guys hear polygraph they think of it as a tool used against criminals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com reports that the FBI has decided to proceed with a program of randomly polygraphing all of its employees. As a symbolic gesture, officials said the first employee tested will likely be Director Louis Freeh, followed by the deputy director and other assistant directors. Officials admitted there is a cultural stigma to overcome at the &#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-2879","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\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}