Adam Goldman on the FBI Using Polygraphs to Test Officials Loyalty: It’s Stoking a Culture of Intimidation

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GOLDMAN: "Well, I think. People they’ve been quick to use polygraphs in ways the bureau hasn’t before, because Mike feinberg can tell you. Of course, he went through a poly when he joined the bureau, and he went probably went through several five year polys to renew his top secret security clearance to ensure that, you know, he was being loyal to his country. But here we have an instance where where, you know, they are using they’ve deployed the poly to sort of suss out whether people are are gossiping essentially about what’s going on in the in the FBI about air moves. Right. And about cash wanting a gun. When he’s not an agent. And, you know, we have been told dozens of people have been poly. And this is really stoking a culture of fear and intimidation inside the bureau in ways that, you know, I. Haven’t seen before. And by the way, normally I think there were people who wouldn’t talk to me, but because of what is happening, they feel the need to reach out, which for me is an extraordinary thing."