Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers. It's unclear whether this will ever happen, but Sessions floated the idea to multiple people, as recently as last month.
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.
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Update: To Find Leakers, Jeff Sessions Wants To Put Entire National Security Council Through Lie Detector Test: Axios (Zero Hedge).
WNU Editor: Another leak on how the Attorney General wants to combat the leaks. You just cannot make this stuff up.
3 comments:
Well, why not? They need to start somewhere?
That test is hardly reliable and that is why results from such tests are not admissible in court trials.
Fred,
Using lie detector methodology would be legal, but the results are not actionable in our judicial system. But the results can however throw up some flags and put the person in question under scrutiny and enable an indirect and detached investigation that could lead somewhere. I think this is the intention.
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