{"id":3023,"date":"2001-06-22T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2001-06-22T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:47:28","slug":"doe-needs-to-stand-up-to-congress-on-lie-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/22\/doe-needs-to-stand-up-to-congress-on-lie-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DOE Needs to Stand Up to Congress on Lie Tests&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>This <em>Albuquerque Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020622231917\/http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/archives\/opinions01\/062101_opinions_doe.shtml\">editorial<\/a> minces no words in its criticism of the Department of Energy&#8217;s polygraph screening program. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Deception&#8221; is a nasty, nine-letter word that preoccupies U.S. counterintelligence agents. Appropriately, they worry about the potential for moles and leaks of nuclear weapons secrets from the nation&#8217;s classified bulwarks, including Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico.<\/p><p>Unfortunately, the word also is at the heart of the Department of Energy&#8217;s misguided efforts to use polygraph examinations as a routine tool for plugging theoretical holes in the nation&#8217;s nuclear secrets dike.<\/p><p>The evidence suggests that the lie detector screening cure &#8211; intended to expose spies and lies &#8211; is worse than the affliction. In fact, it&#8217;s the big lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Albuquerque Tribune editorial minces no words in its criticism of the Department of Energy&#8217;s polygraph screening program. Excerpt: &#8220;Deception&#8221; is a nasty, nine-letter word that preoccupies U.S. counterintelligence agents. Appropriately, they worry about the potential for moles and leaks of nuclear weapons secrets from the nation&#8217;s classified bulwarks, including Sandia and Los Alamos national &#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":[287,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-3023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}