Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reportedly told co-workers that he seeks to interrogate the entire National Security Council (NSC) staff with a lie detector test to “root out leakers,” according to Axios.
Sessions’ idea is to do a one-time, one-issue, polygraph test of everyone on the NSC staff. Interrogators would sit down with every single NSC staffer (there’s more than 100 of them), and ask them, individually, what they know about the leaks of transcripts of the president’s phone calls with foreign leaders. Sessions suspects those leaks came from within the NSC, and thinks that a polygraph test — at the very least — would scare them out of leaking again.
Sessions has told associates he likes the idea of targeting the foreign leader phone calls because there’s a small enough universe of people who would have had access to these transcripts. Also, the idea that the President of the United States can’t have private conversations with foreign leaders was a bridge too far, even for Democrats.
That said, doubt has been cast on Polygraph tests – which are apparently easy to beat according to Russell Tice – nearly 20 year NSA veteran turned whistleblower on warrantless wiretapping.
Via US News:
Tice, who is no longer at the NSA, says he, along with those still in contact with at the agency, marvel at how easy it is to beat the lie detector.
First, Tice says, a person can trick the tester on “probable-lie” questions. During a polygraph’s pre-test interview, the tester usually asks a person to answer questions they are likely to lie about. These include questions like: ‘Have you ever stolen money?,’ ‘Have you ever lied to your parents?,’ or ‘Have you ever cheated on a test?’. Most people have done these at least once, but lie about it. So the tester uses a person’s response to a likely lie as a way to establish how a person physically reacts while lying.
Tice says to trick the tester, a person should lie in response to these questions like most other people would, but also bite their tongue hard while doing so, which will set off other physiological reactions in the body. The tester’s “needles will fly everywhere,” says Tice, “and he will think, ‘This guy is a nervous nelly. He has a strong physical reaction when he’s lying.'”
“Think of a warm summer night… or drinking a beer, whatever calms you. You’re throwing them off,” he says. “The needle might nip a little [because you’re lying], but not off the charts.” And since the person has already convinced the tester that they have off-the-charts physiological reactions while lying, Tice says, a small reaction likely won’t tip the tester off.
So basically any use of lie detectors by law enforcement should be thrown out if used to convict.
Basically, a “lie detector” test by polygraph is supremely archaic and mocked by Moore’s law?
Haha. Who cares if it is true. Still awesome. Screams of blown out dildos can be heard across Libtard land.
Clearly, Sessions is an idiot who needs to be fired for two reason: (a) pretending to look for leakers. (b) not a chance he does not know how easy is to beat polygraph;
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Sessions is a traitor and zionist pig.
waterboard them. Just once. It will scared them off from doing it, or doing it again. This session is a great thinker. Thinking outside the box. Him and Miller, what a team!