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.
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.