{"id":2921,"date":"2001-03-22T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2001-03-22T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:33","slug":"fbi-orders-polygraphs-of-500-employees-in-key-security-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/22\/fbi-orders-polygraphs-of-500-employees-in-key-security-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FBI Orders Polygraphs of 500 Employees in Key Security Posts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Knight Ridder Washington bureau correspondent Lenny Savino <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010405075507\/http:\/\/www.krwashington.com\/content\/krwashington\/2001\/03\/22\/washington\/BC_SPY_POLYGRAPH_EXCLUSIVE_WA_national.htm?template=aprint.htm\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The FBI has responded to the Robert Hanssen spy case by quietly ordering polygraphs of 500 FBI employees in key national security positions.<\/p><p>&#8220;Before this only those with access to very sensitive cases were required to take polygraphs,&#8221; FBI spokesman Bill Carter said Thursday. &#8220;This expands the universe of people who will be subjected to the exams.&#8221;<\/p><p>Hanssen, a 27-year FBI agent, was charged Feb. 18 with spying for Moscow for nearly 15 years. FBI officials have acknowledged that he was never polygraphed. After Hanssen&#8217;s arrest, FBI Director Louis Freeh said he expected to widen the use of polygraphs beyond the screening of applicants, a policy he adopted in 1994.<\/p><p>Freeh expanded the use of polygraphs last week and ordered that they begin immediately, though there was no public announcement of the policy change.<\/p><p>Among those to be tested are 150 top managers in the FBI&#8217;s Senior Executive Service, plus agents and clerks with access to classified national security computers and documents. Anyone who has passed a department polygraph within the last five years will be exempted from this initial round of exams.<\/p><p>Carter was unsure whether Freeh would personally be tested. Freeh was traveling and could not be reached.<\/p><p>There are 11,334 special agents in the FBI, and 15,949 support staff. Former FBI Director William Webster, who is investigating the FBI&#8217;s failure to detect Hanssen&#8217;s spying sooner, is expected to recommend regular polygraph tests in his report next month.<\/p><p>Employees will be not be asked lifestyle questions, like whether they&#8217;ve used drugs, Carter said, but only about contact with foreign intelligence officers. Indications of deception will trigger a thorough investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knight Ridder Washington bureau correspondent Lenny Savino reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON &#8211; The FBI has responded to the Robert Hanssen spy case by quietly ordering polygraphs of 500 FBI employees in key national security positions. &#8220;Before this only those with access to very sensitive cases were required to take polygraphs,&#8221; FBI spokesman Bill Carter said Thursday. &#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-2921","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\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}