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.
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.
Is the FBI really so full of abject cowards that they’re all just rolling over and taking this? The US is so boned.
devolved into chaos
i love how we’re still pretending things are otherwise orderly when literal nazi clowns are running the show.
The funny thing about this is that Patel has undermined any loyalty he might have had in the past. When people order you to take polygraphs, even if you pass the polygraph, you just learned that your boss is an incredibly untrustworthy fuckface. After all, they should have been working for the same mission that you’re working for, but now they are quite clearly acting only for their own selfish ends. If something goes wrong, will they have your back? It’s guaranteed that they won’t.
Another way of saying it is that ordering polygraph tests is itself a test. He failed.
This is crazy. The FBI was already a heavily conservative organization and now he’s dragging it into MAGA-only.
Those conservatives wont be loyalists. They want to use the FBI against the people as they create their police state.
A stress detector mislabled as a lie detector. Fuck right off…
The fall of the US Empire on full display.
don’t they know that polygraphs don’t actually work? it’s taught in psych 101 ffs
They work, but only 50% of the time…
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.
Every photo of this looks like he just mistrusted a fart
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)
He’s been replaced by ai 100%
Nothing like a moron running the FBI amright?
His children’s book for anyone who may have missed it. I think there’s actually a whole series of them.
Fuck, I read some reviews from that page. What a depressing situation. I’m sure many are bots, but still.
There is a
horse
loose
in the hospital
None dare call it FASCISM.
This guy is a bigger pansy than trump. Anyone that paranoid is an evil coward
