DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers

[struth]

The results are about as unreliable as you can get.

Then why does law enforcement routinely use them? I agree, they aren't conclusive to use in Court, but we aren't at Court. This is merely to aid in investigations. lie detector test.

Although the results are usually inadmissible as evidence, lie detector tests can nonetheless be useful in interrogations during criminal investigations. Many confessions have been made after a criminal suspect fails a lie detector test. However, any results of a lie detector test conducted on a criminal defendant that become publicized can be very influential on public opinion of the case, especially if picked up by the news media.

Federal and most state law bans employers in the private sector from requiring employees and prospective employees to submit to a lie detector test. If an employee decides to submit to a test, these laws also prohibit an employer from taking adverse employment action against an employee based upon the results. Some states allow exceptions for embezzlement concerns, in which case the testing procedure is heavily regulated and often monitored. The government may use polygraphs as part of personnel screening for employment, especially for positions dealing with national security.

[Last reviewed in June of 2020 by the Wex Definitions Team ]

 

[d0gbreath]

This isn't a courtroom. Law enforcement routinely uses them outside of Courtrooms.

Only if you give your consent.

 

[struth]

Only if you give your consent.

Sure. Nobody is being forced to take one

 

[d0gbreath]

Sure. Nobody is being forced to take one

We'll fire you if you don't, seems a tiny bit forceful.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

You wouldn't accept anything as proof anyway.

What you want is dead ICE agents.

That's why there's just no conversation to be had with magaturds.

 

[WEATHER53]

We'll fire you if you don't, seems a tiny bit forceful.

Then take it and if you are innocent it will so say

 

[martybegan]

That's why there's just no conversation to be had with magaturds.

Says the side that thinks women can have penises and FUCK YOU if you think differently.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Says the side that thinks women can have penises and FUCK YOU if you think differently.

More ridiculous shit. ^^^

 

[22lcidw]

Donnie's mass deportations deported ~37,000 in his first month. Biden deported ~57,000 in every month of his last year in office.

Someone has to pay.

Perhaps hundreds of thousands were coming into the nation at that time.

 

[d0gbreath]

Perhaps hundreds of thousands were coming into the nation at that time.

Could be, but if they're still here, what difference does it make?

 

[otto105]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/08/dhs-has-begun-performing-polygraph-tests-on-employees-to-find-leakers.html

The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice. The department’s plans to perform these tests was first reported by Bloomberg Government.

A spokesperson for DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Border czar Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks revealing the cities where it planned to conduct operations.

In a video posted on X Friday, Noem said, “We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department of Homeland Security who have been telling individuals about our operations and putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy. We plan to prosecute these two individuals and hold them accountable for what they’ve done.”

LOL.....This might turn into trying to find any employees who don't leak.

While I know that polys are BS, I support them being used as a tool to track down leakers. Not so much because they will catch the culprit in a lie, but because somebody they work with will probably say "you should check out so and so because of x,y,z".

The red deep state is at work.

 

[22lcidw]

Could be, but if they're still here, what difference does it make?

We live in a time of socialist programs. And there are many enjoying those programs. I am sure there many people who came here illegally who for years have worked as good citizens. They must assimilate like American have done from the beginning. It takes time. Having endless illegals come in makes that difficult. Progressive have their ulterior motives. We saw a limit on deficit spending during the first two years with inflation raising its ugly head. 5% yearly inflation is not going to go well with A good percentage of Americans. That is a huge transfer of wealth for those on fixed incomes and fixed incomes with some income coming from COLAS. There is a percentage of the working population who have COLAS to offset the inflation and a percentage who does not. One trillion dollars of interest on the government deficit a year and near a two trillion dollars yearly deficit. Needs to come down.

 

[whitehall]

Polygraphs are routine in the FBI and CIA. Why not Homeland?

 

[struth]

We'll fire you if you don't, seems a tiny bit forceful.

Nope it's a choice. The Govt is allowed to give people the option. You have no right to a job with the Govt.

 

[d0gbreath]

We live in a time of socialist programs. And there are many enjoying those programs. I am sure there many people who came here illegally who for years have worked as good citizens. They must assimilate like American have done from the beginning. It takes time. Having endless illegals come in makes that difficult. Progressive have their ulterior motives. We saw a limit on deficit spending during the first two years with inflation raising its ugly head. 5% yearly inflation is not going to go well with A good percentage of Americans. That is a huge transfer of wealth for those on fixed incomes and fixed incomes with some income coming from COLAS. There is a percentage of the working population who have COLAS to offset the inflation and a percentage who does not. One trillion dollars of interest on the government deficit a year and near a two trillion dollars yearly deficit. Needs to come down.

I'm no where near to being the economist that you are. Probably from lack of interest.
The fact that Homan and trump can hardly deport anyone, is our saving grace.

 

[1srelluc]

The other side of that coin, is that innocent high anxiety people can fail them.

 

[Rigby5]

Good!

Not good.
Lie detector test are well known to be unreliable, and it violates the 5th amendment.

 

[Rigby5]

Can't you scan all emails held by a mobile simply through hand held data grabbing equipment ?
Like another, perhaps special, mobile ?

Or, are we still pretending that this is not done, or cannot be done ?

Hand held devices contain no data at all. The emails and texts are stored on servers that it is illegal to search.

 

[Rigby5]

And how about the standards of the press? Working against Americans with their platforms…shameful.

When the

So you approve of leaks to violent gangs to tell them when ICE and the Marshals are showing up?

There are no "violent gangs" except the DOF, HLS, ICE, and the FBI.
They clearly are the ones violating the law, like sending innocent people to horrific prisons in El Salvador without any due process.

 

[Rigby5]

Almost makes me wonder if the idiots giving out the raid info are getting paid on the side to do so.

When the raids are illegal, then it is criminal not to disclose them to the press.