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The White House pulled the plug on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to root out leakers, according to a report. Patrick Weaver, a current adviser to Hegseth, alerted ...

President Trump frequently discusses having polygraph tests administered after major news stories concerning the White House leak to the press, according to a Politico report. Trump discusses ordering ...

Federal agencies have stepped up their efforts over the past few weeks to find potential leakers, and some — like the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense — are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs in ...

Growing up in the shadow of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Joseph Howard dreamed of becoming a special agent. He enlisted in the military after high school, later worked a Drug ...

You’ve probably seen this device before. This is a “polygraph” -- which is more popularly known as a lie detector test. But just how often it can catch you in a lie is shrouded in controversy.

Polygraphs are widely viewed as unreliable indicators of lies, despite the Trump administration’s increasing reliance on the tool to weed out agitators in the federal government. However, experts say ...

Customs and Border Protection is spending millions of dollars conducting lie-detector tests on job applicants who have already admitted disqualifying information during their interviews, according to ...

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The Department of Defense is investigating “recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information” and plans to use polygraphs as part of the probe, according to a memo published to the ...