The FBI has devolved into chaos amid Director Kash Patel’s ongoing efforts to rid the agency of staff disloyal to the Trump administration.
Patel is now subjecting senior executives to polygraphs at a “rapid rate,” The New York Times reports, as part of a wider effort to stamp out embarrassing news leaks from within the agency.
One senior official told the Times in its exposé that he was forced out last month after being subjected to a lie detector test. He believes he was targeted because he hadn’t told Patel about his wife taking a knee during the 2020 protests against police brutality in Washington, D.C.
Ok I’m not going to entertain the idea that the actual FBI doesn’t know how polygraphs work and how effective they really are.
This is a clear excuse to just oust whomever they don’t like.
Is the FBI really so full of abject cowards that they’re all just rolling over and taking this? The US is so boned.
devolved into chaos
i love how we’re still pretending things are otherwise orderly when literal nazi clowns are running the show.
Polygraphs are bullshit and easy to defeat
Basically their entire existence (as they currently exist in the justice system) was manufactured purely to fabricate evidence from nothing.
It’s not about the polygraph results. It’s if you’re smart enough to know polygraphs are bullshit and refuse to take one the opposition will use that as an implication of guilt. And because they’re bullshit and you get a “guilty” result, they’ll use that too.
That doesn’t sound legal
But you could also just take it and force the results to be useless
Polygraph results are not admissible in court. Nonetheless, cases get tried in the public too.
The funny thing about this is that Patel has undermined any loyalty he might have had in the past. When people order you to take polygraphs, even if you pass the polygraph, you just learned that your boss is an incredibly untrustworthy fuckface. After all, they should have been working for the same mission that you’re working for, but now they are quite clearly acting only for their own selfish ends. If something goes wrong, will they have your back? It’s guaranteed that they won’t.
Another way of saying it is that ordering polygraph tests is itself a test. He failed.
This is crazy. The FBI was already a heavily conservative organization and now he’s dragging it into MAGA-only.
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Ah yes, because those are totally a real and trustworthy technology and not some snake oil bullshit that is inadmissible in court because of how snake oil bullshit it is.
Anyway, that tracks.
You think the FBI under trump should be taken seriously? The government is an international laughing stock.
The FBI before Trump shouldn’t have been taken seriously when it was treating shit like BLM as dangerous while ignoring white power terrorist groups.
But it should be taken even less seriously now.
The government is an international laughing stock.
Yes.
Or cointelpro decades before that, probably the same thing honestly
I think we’re confusing “taking seriously” with “respecting”
inadmissible in court
The judicial coup is out of control /s
Nothing like a moron running the FBI amright?
A stress detector mislabled as a lie detector. Fuck right off…
Every photo of this looks like he just mistrusted a fart
He looks like he’s just as surprised as everyone else that he’s actually in charge of the FBI… It’s imposter syndrome, but the dude is an actual imposter.
The fall of the US Empire on full display.
don’t they know that polygraphs don’t actually work? it’s taught in psych 101 ffs
Polygraphs have wires and knobs though, so that makes them scientific, high-tech and modern - otherwise the only way to do their witch hubt would be dunking agents in a pond or stripping them naked and looking for satan’s birthmarks…
What else floats on water?
A church ?
So if they weigh the same as a church…
I mean they did such in Ozark. The church selling drugs at church lol.
They work, but only 50% of the time…
They work, but only
50% of the time…
They probably do and just don’t care.
I’m sure they have a whole guidebook on how to present them to a judge in such a way that they can be used as evidence for baseless search warrants.
This is basically what J. Edgar Hoover did. I didn’t think he ever used a polygraph specifically, but he did ideological purges all the time.
The FBI has always been like this.
(I would say hi to my agent, but let’s be honest, he’s probably been laid off already)
He’s been replaced by ai 100%
His children’s book for anyone who may have missed it. I think there’s actually a whole series of them.
Fuck, I read some reviews from that page. What a depressing situation. I’m sure many are bots, but still.
Conservatives should be outlawed as they pose a serious danger to children imo.
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