{"id":3455,"date":"2002-03-22T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:18:48","slug":"fbi-moves-to-prevent-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/22\/fbi-moves-to-prevent-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"“FBI Moves to Prevent Espionage”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Associated Press reports<\/a> on counterespionage measures adopted by the FBI in the wake of the Hanssen affair, including a discussion of the Bureau’s counterintelligence-scope polygraph program. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster is wrapping up a massive review of the FBI’s internal security in the aftermath of the Robert Hanssen spy case. The senior agent spied for Russia for more than a decade without U.S. detection.<\/p>

While awaiting Webster’s recommendations, the FBI agreed to answer questions earlier this week from The Associated Press about some of the changes and findings already made.<\/p>

FBI officials said they have conducted more than 700 polygraphs of FBI agents and workers with access to the most sensitive information and have identified a small number whose tests raised flags, such as possible deception, that warranted additional scrutiny.<\/p>

Officials said the number was just over 1 percent of those tested ?just under 10 workers. They declined to be more specific, citing ongoing investigations and personnel privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The failure-to-pass rate of just over 1% cited here is considerably lower than the rate of about 5% reported by Knight Ridder correspondent Lenny Savino<\/a> in July 2001. To discuss these issues, see the AntiPolygraph.org message board thread, On the FBI Polygraph Failure Rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press reports on counterespionage measures adopted by the FBI in the wake of the Hanssen affair, including a discussion of the Bureau’s counterintelligence-scope polygraph program. Excerpt: Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster is wrapping up a massive review of the FBI’s internal security in the aftermath of the Robert Hanssen spy case. …<\/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-3455","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\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}