When asked about the use of polygraph exams, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, “The Department of Homeland Security is a national security agency. We can, should, and will polygraph personnel.”
Friendly WARNING reminder of McLaughlin’s reassuring statement when DHS began dismantling the Office of Civil Rights and Liberties (OCRL) back in March.
McLaughlin said Homeland Security is “committed to civil rights protections” but said these offices were a roadblock to immigration enforcement. “These offices have obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission. Rather than supporting law enforcement efforts, they often function as internal adversaries that slow down operations,” she said.
Here are some other WARNINGS reminders from that March article, including one from an employee of OCRL, who has probably been hooked up to a lie detector since trying to WARN explain to us what that office actually does.
"With Trump’s mass firing of the entire DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties workforce, he is ensuring in advance that there will be no transparency or oversight of his extreme agenda,” said Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security.
A staffer who works in the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties office and asked not to be identified for fear of retribution stressed that the office’s mission stretches far beyond immigration and border security, noting that they look into allegations concerning all parts of Homeland Security, including the Transportation Safety Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
These employees that are being hooked up to lie detectors for WARNING leaking information to the American public, are also the ones responsible for letting us know that the president gave ICE permission to enter homes without a warrant back in March if they believe a suspect may be in the home. Sound like some God damn patriots to me.
They work as intimidation tools.
Yeah and like any intimidation tools, sometimes you get your desired goal, a lot of times you get false confessions/false positives, and sometimes if the guilty person really knows what they’re doing, they get off scot-free.
Then the people you’re using the intimidation tool against become even more resentful, distrustful, and skeptical of your leadership capabilities, even if they’re scared or intimidated by you.
Not that I would expect anything different from these people, but I guess just goes to show money can’t really buy strategic or critical thinking skills.
These things have been debunked over and over again. But science is woke anyway.
They have been debunked as lie detectors…
…But they can work at scaring the person testifying into giving away more information.Another effect is that after the “test”, the subject is much more likely to unload and divulge useful (and possibly incriminating) information.
Bring Phrenology back to our country!
“You have the sloping brow of a common criminal.”
They can’t be used in court for a reason. They’re unreliable.
Following the usual rule of questions in the headline, no polygraphs don’t work. They might make people worried enough to make a mistake.
Also, if you meet one asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If all day, all you meet are assholes, then you’re the asshole.
It’s one thing if you got one leak in one department, if you got multiple leaks in multiple departments, maybe the issue isn’t the fucking leakers!
Rarely there are also people who don’t even have a detectable physiological reaction even if they are guilty.
Best case scenario, you risk framing a bunch of people who didn’t do shit, except get nervous bc an authoritarian regime hooked them up to a lie detector test, in order to find the person who tried to place their country above themselves. There’s also a chance that person doesn’t even get caught with the lie detector test bc it’s such a bullshit technology.
Why not just have a psychic come in and start reading tea leaves? Or better yet just put some names on a dart board and blind fold the dart thrower to figure out the leaks? Fucking dumb sacks of shit.
Best case scenario, you risk framing a bunch of people who didn’t do shit
They want names. They don’t care if they’re actually guilty.
If they’re looking for leaks they should check the pants of the orange man in charge.
