{"id":3183,"date":"2001-10-04T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2001-10-04T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:13:53","slug":"senate-eases-doe-energy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/04\/senate-eases-doe-energy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Senate Eases DOE Energy Policy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/\">Secrecy in Government Project<\/a> reports in <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/news\/secrecy\/2001\/10\/100401.html\">today&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/news\/secrecy\/index.html\">Secrecy News<\/a> electronic newsletter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>SENATE EASES DOE POLYGRAPH POLICY<\/strong><\/p><p>Buried in the Defense Authorization Act approved by the Senate this week is language that would repeal the Department of Energy&#8217;s controversial polygraph policy and replace it with a more measured polygraph program.<\/p><p>Under the new interim procedures, anyone who does not have routine access to &#8220;Top Secret Restricted Data&#8221; could be exempted from polygraph testing. In practice, there is very little information that is classified at the TS\/RD level.<\/p><p>The legislation directs the Secretary of Energy to develop a new counterintelligence polygraph policy, but wisely refrains from dictating the specific content of that policy.<\/p><p>The text of the new polygraph legislation, which must still be considered in a House-Senate conference, is posted here:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/congress\/2001\/100301_poly.html\">http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/congress\/2001\/100301_poly.html<\/a><\/p><p>&#8220;As we all know, the initial response prompting &#8230; the polygraph program &#8230; was the situation of security breaches in our nuclear laboratories,&#8221; said Senator Jack Reed on September 24. &#8220;We hope and believe that is a thing of the past.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; Secrecy in Government Project reports in today&#8217;s Secrecy News electronic newsletter: SENATE EASES DOE POLYGRAPH POLICY Buried in the Defense Authorization Act approved by the Senate this week is language that would repeal the Department of Energy&#8217;s controversial polygraph policy and replace it with a more measured &#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":[287,296,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-3183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"tag-legislation","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","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=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}