FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as other staff, and has been described as being in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

Patel walled himself off from some senior bureau leaders this week after multiple media reports raised red flags about his leadership, according to three people familiar with his recent actions. Two of the people told MS NOW that the director ordered the polygraphing this week of former and current security detail members, as well as several information technology staff.

The director has also avoided meeting this week with some key operational leaders of the bureau, the people said, raising concerns inside the FBI about Patel’s ability to stay abreast of pressing threats and investigations in order to make the best decisions.

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[–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Polygraphs aren't even admissible as evidence in court due to how inaccurate they are.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    They are unbelievably simple to circumvent. I doubt anyone working in high-level law enforcement doesn’t know how to produce a false positive on those things. They’re about as accurate as mood rings.

    Obligatory: fucking Americans, srsly

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    "More than two dozen" is a very inefficient way of saying 25

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    “Beyond my expectation, thru uncontrollable factors, this scientific investigation became for practical purposes a Frankenstein’s monster, which I have spent over 40 years in combating.” - John Larson, the pig that invented the piece of woo-woo hokum pseudo-science called a "polygraph test."

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    When this fails to produce his desired results, what do we do next? Read tea leaves? Consult The Bones? Can they just ask Jambi the Genie?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Take some Valium to help reduce stress changes.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Watch the leakers are the team doing the polygraph tests.

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    [–] 71 points 6 months ago

    I've taken three polygraphs in my life, and I lied on all three. Not only did the polygrapher not catch the lies, all three accused me of lying about things I had been truthful about. By the third one, I was just fucking with the guy. I figured I didn't owe him any respect, he knows what he does is a scam.

    I'd never take a polygraph if my freedom was on the line.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Polygraphs don't work, all they do is measure physiological changes

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yes but...This is an administration staffed entirely by people who know nothing about their jobs except what they've seen on TV and the movies. Zero doubt that Kash thinks it's a magic lie detector.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    This is what always happens with fascism.

    Because the entire movement is predicated on excusing the incompetence of ones self and placing blame on another. The immigrant, the jew, the trans kid: Its always someone else's fault. Its also why these regimes inevitably collapse inward, because eventually the circle of the circular firing squad gets smaller, and smaller, until.. well.. you know.. Hitler's bunker and all that.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Lol so fucking embarrassing. Imagine how this chapter of life is gonna look in 20 years when Trump is gone and your legacy is no more than a page in the comedy section of history books.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    He's an idiot if he believes a polygraph show anything other than that the victim might be nervous. Polygraph is a scam. But he's an idiot even without believing that.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Lol, polygraphs.

    We’re like the only country on Earth that uses that shit.

    They’re unable to determine truth from lies. They can only detect autonomic fluctuations in the body after someone is asked questions.

    That data is then interpreted by a human who, through some subjective method of interpretation, decides whether it indicates truth or deception.

    It’s complete and utter insanity that this is used in any capacity.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I will only submit to a polygraph if I can also ask everyone else involved my own set of questions and publish the results.

    Just 2 hours of questions on pedophilia until I get something.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Theyre all lying to you kash, the entire bureau. Everyone waits til you leave the room and they all break out laughing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    This would really work to make him crazy... well, crazier. And it has the added advantage of almost certainly being true.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Surely this will discourage further leaks and not make the staff hate him even more

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    DrunKash was probably one of those sources

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    True kakistocracy.

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