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Acting CISA director failed a polygraph, career staff now under investigation

14 pointsby MilnerRoutetoday at 4:19 AM2 commentsview on HN

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temporallobetoday at 5:23 AM

A polygraph is just an intimidation tool. I have family who worked for 3-letter agencies who “failed” polygraphs, only to have them retaken a day later and “pass”. The polygraph examiners are pretty darn good at intimidating subjects, which understandably affects their vitals, causing false positives left and right. Heck, I have a 30-40 mmHg higher blood pressure reading in any doctor’s office than I do at home due to white coat syndrome. I can’t imagine how being interrogated would for something I didn’t do would affect me.

rf15today at 7:39 AM

everyone outside the US: lol polygraph selfown

For those not in the know: they're unreliable to the point of uselessness and the US Government is somehow really enamoured with the fantasy of mind-reading and lie-detection. But what can you do when the government agencies suffer from chuunibyou?

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