{"id":3466,"date":"2002-04-03T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:25:53","slug":"fbi-investigates-employees-who-fail-polygraph-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/03\/fbi-investigates-employees-who-fail-polygraph-test\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FBI Investigates Employees Who Fail Polygraph Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Reuters correspondent James Vicini <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210222185341\/https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/406425\">reports<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; As many as seven FBI employees with access to highly classified information face more investigation after taking polygraph tests given to tighten security following the discovery of a Russian spy within the FBI, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p><p>&#8220;We have identified up to 700 persons who were responsible for looking at highly classified information and have run a polygraph program that I believe has been successful in that we have some assurance on all but one percent, and the others we are looking at,&#8221; FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters.<\/p><p>&#8220;We are heartened that less than 1 percent of the 700 raised issues that require further investigation,&#8221; he said, days before the release of a special commission&#8217;s report on how to improve security after the Robert Hanssen spy case.<\/p><p>Mueller acknowledged that security had not been a &#8220;principal priority&#8221; at the FBI, but added, &#8220;We&#8217;ve moved to address that.&#8221;<\/p><p>One of the steps adopted after the Hanssen spy case, which badly damaged the FBI&#8217;s reputation, has been expanded use of polygraph tests for current FBI employees.<\/p><p>Hanssen, a 25-year FBI agent and counter-intelligence expert, pleaded guilty to spying for Moscow and is awaiting sentencing next month. His lawyer has said Hanssen began spying in 1979, just three years after he became a special agent.<\/p><p>FBI Assistant Director Kenneth Senser said polygraph tests have been given to about 700 employees since July. The &#8220;overwhelming majority&#8221; successfully completed the test.<\/p><p>Senser, a career CIA official now in charge of the FBI&#8217;s security division, said the 1 percent, whose responses during the test triggered concern, still were being &#8220;worked with.&#8221;<\/p><p>THOUSANDS MAY FACE POLYGRAPH TEST<\/p><p>Senser said the next step under consideration would be a &#8220;limited expansion&#8221; of the polygraph tests, adding a &#8220;few thousand&#8221; to those who must be tested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters correspondent James Vicini reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; As many as seven FBI employees with access to highly classified information face more investigation after taking polygraph tests given to tighten security following the discovery of a Russian spy within the FBI, officials said on Wednesday. &#8220;We have identified up to 700 persons who were &#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":[30,70,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-3466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-robert-s-mueller-iii","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}