Lie Detectors For The Afghan Army

A U.S. soldier checks an Afghan man for weapons before allowing him through a security checkpoint in Ayub Khe in, Afghanistan's Khost province, Sept. 8, 2012. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Trumbull

Sending Lie Detectors For Afghan ‘Allies’ -- New York Post

Fearing as many as 85,000 Afghan army and police recruits may sympathize with the Taliban and aim to murder their American mentors, the Pentagon has deployed dozens more counterintelligence agents to Afghanistan to test the loyalty of recruits with lie detectors.

The “CI surge,” as one US intelligence official called it, casts further doubt on the safety of the training partnership and the entire Afghanistan exit strategy that hinges on it.

Under pressure from President Obama, the military rushed to recruit local Afghans to stand up a national army and police ahead of his announced 2014 troop withdrawal. To process some 7,000 new recruits each month, corners were cut on background checks, allowing insurgents and terrorists to fill the ranks of the now-350,000-member security force.

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My Comment: If there are 85,000 suspected Taliban sympathizers in the Afghan security forces (one out of four) .... this tells me that the problem is far worse than what is being publicized.