{"id":684,"date":"2012-07-25T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-07-27T05:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T10:40:47","slug":"national-reconnaissance-office-polygraph-unit-targeted-personal-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/national-reconnaissance-office-polygraph-unit-targeted-personal-information\/","title":{"rendered":"National Reconnaissance Office Polygraph Unit Targeted Personal Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nro-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-685\" title=\"NRO Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nro-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"NRO Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nro-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nro-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nro-logo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>On 10 July 2012, the McClatchy news service published a series of three investigative articles by reporter Marisa Taylor about polygraph screening practices at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which runs America&#8217;s space-based reconnaissance activities. The articles document how NRO polygraph examiners, who are supposed to conduct only counterintelligence-scope polygraph screening examinations (that is, polygraph interrogations that are limited to espionage-related questions) were incentivized (and in at least one instance, explicitly directed) to elicit personal information far beyond the authorized scope.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, NRO made its counterintelligence-scope polygraph program into a full-scope (or so-called &#8220;lifestyle&#8221;) polygraph program, even though it is not authorized by law or regulation to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s well-researched articles may be read on-line here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"National Reconnaissance Office Accused of Illegally Collecting Personal Data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/07\/10\/155587\/national-reconnaissance-office.html\">National Reconnaissance Office Accused of Illegally Collecting Personal Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"National Reconnaissance Office Hasn't Told Police of Crime Confessions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/07\/10\/155585\/national-reconnaissance-office.html\">National Reconnaissance Office Hasn&#8217;t Told Police of Crime Confessions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"McClatchy: National Reconnaissance Office View: Whistleblower Is Merely a Malcontent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/07\/10\/155586\/national-reconnaissance-office.html\">National Reconnaissance Office View: Whistleblower Is Merely a Malcontent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, McClatchey has made available on-line a <a title=\"Memorandum by NRO Polygraph Examiner Mark S. Phillips Dated 21 November 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/07\/10\/155644\/the-ig-complaint-of-mark-phillips.html\">memorandum<\/a> from then NRO polygrapher Mark S. Phillips to the Department of Defense Inspector General documenting unauthorized practices within the NRO polygraph program. Phillips exhibited honesty and integrity that is all-too-rare among senior personnel in the intelligence community today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 July 2012, the McClatchy news service published a series of three investigative articles by reporter Marisa Taylor about polygraph screening practices at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which runs America&#8217;s space-based reconnaissance activities. The articles document how NRO polygraph examiners, who are supposed to conduct only counterintelligence-scope polygraph screening examinations (that is, polygraph &#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":[151,150,152,148,149,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-full-scope","8":"tag-lifestyle","9":"tag-mark-phillips","10":"tag-national-reconnaissance-office","11":"tag-nro","12":"tag-screening","13":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}