{"id":310,"date":"2009-04-11T04:49:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2021-02-08T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:20:13","slug":"cia-polygraph-operators-need-to-have-their-heads-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/cia-polygraph-operators-need-to-have-their-heads-examined\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Polygraph Operators Need to Have Their Heads Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In a <a title=\"When Lie Detectors Lie: The CIA and John Sullivan\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090421203302\/http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003095876&amp;cpage=1\">commentary<\/a> addressing the case of retired CIA polygrapher <a title=\"Author's bio on ciagatekeeper.com\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070629231115\/http:\/\/www.ciagatekeeper.com:80\/author.html\">John F. Sullivan<\/a>, who is suing the CIA after failing a polygraph test for post-retirement contract employment, <em>Congressional Quarterly<\/em> National Security editor <a title=\"Jeff Stein - SpyTalk\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090329014156\/http:\/\/www.jeffstein.info\/\">Jeff Stein<\/a>, himself a veteran Army Intelligence case officer, proposes that CIA polygraphers &#8212; who &#8220;<span id=\"printableContent\">claim to be able to read the inner thoughts&#8221; of others &#8212; should themselves &#8220;<\/span><span id=\"printableContent\">undergo regular psychiatric tests.&#8221; Perhaps he&#8217;s onto something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more on John Sullivan&#8217;s plight, see <a title=\"Message Board Post on Sullivan Case\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1178803201\">CIA&#8217;s Most Experienced Polygrapher Failed CIA Polygraph After Writing Unwelcome Book on CIA Polygraph Division!<\/a> on the AntiPolygraph.org message board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary addressing the case of retired CIA polygrapher John F. Sullivan, who is suing the CIA after failing a polygraph test for post-retirement contract employment, Congressional Quarterly National Security editor Jeff Stein, himself a veteran Army Intelligence case officer, proposes that CIA polygraphers &#8212; who &#8220;claim to be able to read the inner &#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":[66,68,67,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cia","8":"tag-john-sullivan","9":"tag-lawsuit","10":"tag-polygraph","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}