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Paranoid Kash Patel polygraphs FBI agents in MAGA purge (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

inadmissible in court

The judicial coup is out of control /s

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago

A stress detector mislabled as a lie detector. Fuck right off..

[-] knighthawk0811@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

don't they know that polygraphs don't actually work? it's taught in psych 101 ffs

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

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...

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

What else floats on water?

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

A church ?

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

So if they weigh the same as a church...

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean they did such in Ozark. The church selling drugs at church lol.

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They work, but only 50% of the time...

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

They work, but only ~~5~~0% of the time…

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

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)

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

He’s been replaced by ai 100%

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

The fall of the US Empire on full display.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

This is crazy. The FBI was already a heavily conservative organization and now he’s dragging it into MAGA-only.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 22 points 2 weeks ago

Polygraphs are bullshit and easy to defeat

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Basically their entire existence (as they currently exist in the justice system) was manufactured purely to fabricate evidence from nothing.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That doesn't sound legal

But you could also just take it and force the results to be useless

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Polygraph results are not admissible in court. Nonetheless, cases get tried in the public too.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

devolved into chaos

i love how we're still pretending things are otherwise orderly when literal nazi clowns are running the show.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Every photo of this looks like he just mistrusted a fart

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] blargle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

His children's book for anyone who may have missed it. I think there's actually a whole series of them.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Conservatives should be outlawed as they pose a serious danger to children imo.

[-] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck, I read some reviews from that page. What a depressing situation. I'm sure many are bots, but still.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

There is a

horse

loose

in the hospital

[-] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing like a moron running the FBI amright?

[-] vala@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Is the FBI really so full of abject cowards that they're all just rolling over and taking this? The US is so boned.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

None dare call it FASCISM.

[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Has the search for his neck begun?

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This guy is a bigger pansy than trump. Anyone that paranoid is an evil coward

[-] Kurious84@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He has that sold my soul look about him.

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Now do him

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