Post Aw0FKEvS8h5aDOpnlI by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #Aw0ELmSSqsuAY8RjE0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-10T21:25:24Z
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The #FBI Is Using #Polygraphs to Test Officials’ #Loyalty to #Trump & his alliesSome senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the FBI director, #KashPatel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.#law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/fbi-polygraph-kash-patel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #Aw0EYuWs9g5zLWlk6i by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-10T21:27:47Z
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Typically, the #FBI has turned to #polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with #StateSecrets.Since #KashPatel took office as the director of the FBI, the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test, at times subjecting personnel to a question as specific as whether they have cast aspersions on Patel himself.#Trump #law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
(DIR) Post #Aw0EnsoKpHSuMQ4nAG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-10T21:30:29Z
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In interviews & #polygraph tests, the #FBI has asked senior employees whether they have said anything negative about #KashPatel…. In one instance, ofcls were forced to take a polygraph as the agency sought to determine who disclosed to the news media that Patel had demanded a service #weapon, an unusual request given that he is not an agent. The number of ofcls asked to take a polygraph is in the dozens, though it is unclear how many have specifically been asked about Patel.#Trump #law #fascism
(DIR) Post #Aw0FASkrrqY0D5Dn84 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-10T21:34:31Z
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The use of the #polygraph, & the nature of the questioning, is part of the FBI’s broader crackdown on news #leaks, reflecting, to a degree, #KashPatel’s acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed. The moves, fmr bureau ofcls say, are politically charged & highly inappropriate, underscoring what they describe as an alarming quest for fealty at the #FBI, where there is little tolerance for #dissent. Disparaging Patel or his deputy, #DanBongino, fmr ofcls say, could cost people their job.#law
(DIR) Post #Aw0FATXmvxgAeo6rNg by HarriettMB@beige.party
2025-07-10T21:34:04Z
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@Nonilex This is appalling, as lie detectors do nothing of the sort. At best they detect nervousness or stress or fear which is then seen as some kind of ‘admission’. But this Trump administration doesn’t want truth, facts, evidence or science. It just wants to be pandered to. This will ruin some good and honest people.
(DIR) Post #Aw0FJy3gqoZpu1Ydk0 by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-07-10T21:36:07Z
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@Nonilex I'll say something....he looks psychotic.
(DIR) Post #Aw0FKEvS8h5aDOpnlI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-10T21:36:15Z
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“An #FBI employee’s loyalty is to the #Constitution, not to the director or deputy director,” said James Davidson, a former agent who spent 23 years in the bureau. “It says everything about Patel’s weak constitution that this is even on his radar.”#Trump #KashPatel #law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
(DIR) Post #Aw0FT9hOwPQqbxVt8S by BlueDot@left-tusk.com
2025-07-10T21:37:51Z
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@Nonilex Polygraphs are useless at detecting lies. But they're quite good at scaring people into confessing stuff.
(DIR) Post #Aw0GKHXMWudgGi9NoG by mwyman@mastodon.social
2025-07-10T21:47:26Z
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@Nonilex This is stupidity on so many levels. Everyone at the agency should know polygraphs are bullshit.
(DIR) Post #Aw0H4Mb23I9bHQq9gG by noplasticshower@infosec.exchange
2025-07-10T21:55:51Z
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@Nonilex making America great just like j Edgar Hoover and his lipstick
(DIR) Post #Aw0MHEvkMf4L2YUMAC by PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-07-10T22:54:12Z
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@Nonilex Surely the observation that Patel is a partisan incompetent doesn't reveal any secrets to anyone?
(DIR) Post #Aw0RzhXrptJgIfL6cC by solownh@mstdn.party
2025-07-10T23:58:13Z
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@Nonilex A witchhunt by any other name...
(DIR) Post #Aw0SMG6G2jUbqABJJI by Tock@corteximplant.com
2025-07-11T00:02:17Z
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@Nonilex May as well use E-Meters from Scientology and Dowsing Rods to detect how bad they want to go to the bathroom.
(DIR) Post #Aw0UpWn1GncVuPGdAe by hosford42@techhub.social
2025-07-11T00:30:02Z
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@Nonilex Does anybody else see this as an enormously dystopian, authoritarian move that is scary AF to witness in our government? Gearing up for the Night of the Long Knives?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives