{"id":2919,"date":"2001-03-20T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2001-03-20T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:33","slug":"fbi-should-be-polygraph-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/20\/fbi-should-be-polygraph-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FBI Should Be Polygraph-tested&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2001\/03\/8532\/\">commentary<\/a>, WorldNetDaily staff writer Jon E. Dougher<a href=\"mailto:jdougherty@worldnetdaily.com\">ty<\/a> argues for polygraph screening at FBI. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Is it just me, or does the federal government get more arrogant by the year?<\/p><p>A report <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010331090524\/http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/now\/story\/0,1597,279491-412,00.shtml\">by CBS News last week<\/a> demonstrates well the government&#8217;s worsening &#8220;us versus them&#8221; mentality.<\/p><p>It seems that FBI agents are ticked off because Director Louis Freeh and Attorney General John Ashcroft are considering administering widespread &#8212; and frequent &#8212; polygraph examinations to agents.<\/p><p>Had this been done all along, security advocates have said, guys like Robert Hanssen &#8212; the 25-year FBI vet who has allegedly spied for Russia for 15 of those years until he was caught last month &#8212; could have been discovered much sooner.<\/p><p>Now, however, Freeh is having second thoughts because FBI agents are whining about having to take the tests. They say polygraphs aren&#8217;t always accurate, which is true. They say they&#8217;re afraid that a couple of false positives could sack the careers of some otherwise honest agents &#8212; a legitimate concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this commentary, WorldNetDaily staff writer Jon E. Dougherty argues for polygraph screening at FBI. Excerpt: Is it just me, or does the federal government get more arrogant by the year? A report by CBS News last week demonstrates well the government&#8217;s worsening &#8220;us versus them&#8221; mentality. It seems that FBI agents are ticked off &#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],"class_list":{"0":"post-2919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","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=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}