Couldn’t Jeff Sessions (perhaps at the President’s direction) require all senior DOJ and FBI leaders to undergo a lie detector test regarding whether (and what) they have communicated to members of the media or conduits to them (think Comey on that part) regarding certain topics without having first followed the approved protocols for such media communications? And, assuming so, couldn’t that include all Special Counsel personnel as well?
Perhaps I’m missing something here, but it would be great to know what would and would not be legally permissible along those lines...
Obviously “whistle blower” laws would also have to be taken into account...but “whistle blowing” is not what has been happening for the past year and a half...
“Couldn’t Jeff Sessions (perhaps at the President’s direction) require all senior DOJ and FBI leaders to undergo ....”
Sessions could i suppose, but right now he is having a mint-julep, and discussing marijuana in Colorado. Oh, and now he wants the honorary southern title of “Colonel”.
So it’s “Colonel Sessions” from now on.
I'd like to see them waterboarded. Not to get information, you understand. I wouldn't even ask them questions. I'd just like to waterboard the bejeezus out of them.
A good suggestion.
I don’t know who admins the Lie Detector tests now for clearances and followup on the original clearances.
It used to be the FBI.
No way can the FBI be trusted any more for vetting and revetting candidates for TS clearances and updates.
Aldrich Ames passed two lie detector tests.
Polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable at actually detecting lies, particularly among sociopaths and people experienced in taking them, like FBI employees. A successful polygraph test also has the dangerous effect of giving a guilty person the perception of innocence by outsiders.
It is effective in getting normal folks scared enough to confess to stuff, sometimes even confessing to crimes, but very rarely the actual criminal or treasonous activity being sought after initially.
Whistle blower protections were just revised last week, IIRC...
saw a doc displayed here on FR..
Yes, I agree; demand all DOJ/FBI employees take lie detector tests and televise them for all of us ‘deplorables’ to enjoy!!!
Good point.
Decades ago, I went through PIO (Public Information Officer) training and worked along side of several PIOs. They were well aware of the FBIs ability to get ahead of the story with press contacts. They would often get on the fringe of a case, and by the time the news got done, it looked like the Bureau got all the credit.
Just to say, keeping the press in the loop was a long established tradition with the FBI.
However, this is far different from how a PIO is supposed to function. They were using their positions and contacts to influence the outcome of a Presidential election. This is not law enforcement.
Why they are still on the payroll is a big question.
Maybe they are parked in a little room and their new job is to debrief Sessions as to what may have been happening.