{"id":482,"date":"2010-06-13T04:25:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:08:11","slug":"the-truth-about-the-polygraph-according-to-the-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/13\/the-truth-about-the-polygraph-according-to-the-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Polygraph (According to the NSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a video about its polygraph screening program. Watch it here, along with AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s commentary:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth About the Polygraph (According to the NSA)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93_FDeMENN4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The original source video is available <a title=\"Defense Security Service - Security-related videos\" href=\"http:\/\/dssa.dss.mil\/seta\/training_videos.html\">here<\/a>. For commentary on the NSA&#8217;s accompanying polygraph leaflet, see our earlier blog post, <a title=\"NSA Leaflet: Your Polygraph Examination\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=424\">NSA Leaflet: Your Polygraph Examination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a thorough debunking of polygraphy, with extensive citations (including the U.S. Government&#8217;s own polygraph literature) that you may check for yourself, see AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s free book, <em><a title=\"The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (1 mb PDF)\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orglie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf\">The Lie Behind the Lie Detector<\/a> <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">(1 mb PDF).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>See also these public statements by individuals who have gone through the NSA polygraph process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nate B. (NSA)\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orgstatements\/statement-014.shtml\">Nate B.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"&quot;Frustrated&quot; (NSA)\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orgstatements\/statement-019.shtml\">&#8220;Frustrated&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"&quot;NSA Reject&quot; (NSA)\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orgstatements\/statement-022.shtml\">&#8220;NSA Reject&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"&quot;An Anonymous Applicant&quot; (NSA)\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.orgstatements\/statement-033.shtml\">&#8220;An Anonymous Applicant&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Interviewing With an Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/eprint\/nsa-interview.pdf\">&#8220;Ralph J. Perro&#8221;<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And for discussion of polygraph matters, see the AntiPolygraph.org <a title=\"AntiPolygraph.org Message Board\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl\">message board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a video about its polygraph screening program. Watch it here, along with AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s commentary: The original source video is available here. For commentary on the NSA&#8217;s accompanying polygraph leaflet, see our earlier blog post, NSA Leaflet: Your Polygraph Examination. For a thorough debunking of polygraphy, with extensive citations &#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":[44,87,204,70,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-lie-detector","8":"tag-nsa","9":"tag-polygraph","10":"tag-polygraph-screening","11":"tag-video","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}