{"id":2930,"date":"2001-03-26T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2001-03-26T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:33","slug":"beyond-the-polygraph-the-fbis-effort-to-ferret-out-spies-needs-to-go-beyond-things-done-for-public-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/26\/beyond-the-polygraph-the-fbis-effort-to-ferret-out-spies-needs-to-go-beyond-things-done-for-public-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beyond the Polygraph: The FBI&#8217;s Effort to Ferret Out Spies Needs to Go Beyond Things Done for Public Relations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>This <em>Huntsville Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010405081604\/http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/huntsville\/?Mar2001\/26-e36250.html\">editorial<\/a> warns of the danger of substituting polygraphy for effective counterintelligence reform. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A kid takes a gun to school and shoots some classmates. So parents and administrators respond by banning baggy pants and nose rings. A career FBI agent is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union and then for Russia. So the FBI responds by announcing that it will administer lie-detector tests to 500 employees with access to confidential information.<\/p><p>The two situations are not quite comparable, but they share similarities that point up the danger in fashioning a partial response to a problem and then fooling ourselves into believing we&#8217;ve solved the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Huntsville Times editorial warns of the danger of substituting polygraphy for effective counterintelligence reform. Excerpt: A kid takes a gun to school and shoots some classmates. So parents and administrators respond by banning baggy pants and nose rings. A career FBI agent is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union and then &#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-2930","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\/2930","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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}