Trump administration’s lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed and could divert energy from national security priorities
- Written by Brian O'Neill, Professor of Practice, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI are reportedly using polygraphs aggressively to identify dissenters.standret/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, aimed at uncovering leaks to the press.
As someone who has taken roughly a dozen polygraphs...