{"id":5143,"date":"2025-07-05T05:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:08:37","slug":"reporter-kevin-gosztola-speaks-with-antipolygraph-org-co-founder-george-maschke-about-the-trump-administrations-reliance-on-lie-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/reporter-kevin-gosztola-speaks-with-antipolygraph-org-co-founder-george-maschke-about-the-trump-administrations-reliance-on-lie-detectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Kevin Gosztola Speaks with AntiPolygraph.org Co-Founder George Maschke about the Trump Administration&#8217;s Reliance on Lie Detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kevin-gosztola-george-maschke.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kevin Gosztola speaking with George Maschke about polygraph policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Gosztola\">Kevin Gosztola<\/a> spoke with AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke for his <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.transistor.fm\/the-dissenter-weekly\">Dissenter Update<\/a> podcast. Their conversation, which addresses topics including the scientific shortcomings of polygraphy, the use of polygraph screening in an attempt to deter whistleblowing, and how federal employees can protect themselves, begins a little past the ten-minute mark:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Trump Administration&#039;s Reliance On Lie Detector Tests\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eAqjFmVjrhA?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<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Kevin Gosztola spoke with AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke for his Dissenter Update podcast. Their conversation, which addresses topics including the scientific shortcomings of polygraphy, the use of polygraph screening in an attempt to deter whistleblowing, and how federal employees can protect themselves, begins a little past the ten-minute mark:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[500,631,143,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-5143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-polygraph","8":"tag-george-maschke","9":"tag-kevin-gosztola","10":"tag-leaks","11":"tag-polygraph-screening","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","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=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}