{"id":96,"date":"2006-12-11T03:06:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-03-11T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:23:14","slug":"joint-terrorism-task-force-members-balk-at-fbi-polygraph-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/joint-terrorism-task-force-members-balk-at-fbi-polygraph-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Terrorism Task Force Members Balk at FBI Polygraph Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Paul Bedard of <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> comments in his <a title=\"What's Wrong? Don't You Trust Us?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/politics\/washingtonwhispers\/061208\/whats_wrong_dont_you_trust_us.htm?s_cid=rss:site1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Whispers<\/a> column:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Oh, no you won&#8217;t&#8221; is the reaction of cops and other first responders to an almost rude FBI decision to ask its Joint Terrorism Task Force members to take a lie detector test. To the FBI, it&#8217;s a smart move: Since 9\/11, the task force of federal and local officials has expanded to some 1,500 in over a hundred offices nationwide. But to some members it&#8217;s a slap, and something that could hurt their careers if the polygraph&#8211;whose accuracy is widely questioned by scientists&#8211;burps out an error. Joining local cops in opposition are agents with the Homeland Security Department&#8217;s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For related commentary on the AntiPolygraph.org message board, see&nbsp; <a title=\"FBI Testing Local Cops...\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1150755416\">FBI Testing Local Cops&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bedard of U.S. News &amp; World Report comments in his Washington Whispers column: &#8220;Oh, no you won&#8217;t&#8221; is the reaction of cops and other first responders to an almost rude FBI decision to ask its Joint Terrorism Task Force members to take a lie detector test. To the FBI, it&#8217;s a smart move: Since &#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":[30,70,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-96","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-terrorism","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}