{"id":3669,"date":"2002-08-13T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2002-08-13T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:33","slug":"first-lawmaker-agrees-to-lie-detector-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/13\/first-lawmaker-agrees-to-lie-detector-test\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First Lawmaker Agrees to Lie Detector Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>This short Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,60293,00.html\">report<\/a>, found on FoxNews.com, is cited here in full: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>BINGHAMTON, N.Y. \u2013 A central New York congressman said he would be willing to take a lie detector test as part of the FBI&#8217;s probe into intelligence leaks.<\/p><p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020813002147\/http:\/\/www.house.gov\/boehlert\/\">Sherwood Boehlert<\/a> &#8212; a member of the House Intelligence Committee &#8212; dismissed concerns expressed by some colleagues who say polygraph exams on lawmakers would be inappropriate.<\/p><p>Critics of the idea say it raises constitutional issues involving the separation of the legislative and executive branches of government.<\/p><p>But Boehlert told Binghamton radio station WNBF that the FBI has asked him whether he would submit to a lie detector test and he said he would. The Utica-area congressman added that he doubts he&#8217;ll actually have to submit to such a test.<\/p><p>Boehlert said national security is too important to allow a policy debate to interfere in the effort to find who&#8217;s been leaking sensitive information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short Associated Press report, found on FoxNews.com, is cited here in full: BINGHAMTON, N.Y. \u2013 A central New York congressman said he would be willing to take a lie detector test as part of the FBI&#8217;s probe into intelligence leaks. Republican Sherwood Boehlert &#8212; a member of the House Intelligence Committee &#8212; dismissed concerns &#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":[30,421,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-3669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-house-permanent-select-committee-on-intelligence","9":"tag-leaks","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}