White House Reportedly Tells Hegseth To Stop Polygraph Tests
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White House" host dug into fresh reporting about the defense secretary's use of polygraph tests at the Pentagon.
Polygraph tests measure changes in bodily signals as a way to detect whether a person is lying. Some parties such as the APA, argue that they don't work.
The Trump administration quietly scrapped a sweeping lie detector program inside the Pentagon this spring, just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched it to root out leaks and just as he was facing one himself.
Hegseth is obviously the defense secretary, but there’s reason to wonder whether he’s calling all the shots at the Pentagon.
Even if polygraph tests are not accurate, the threat of a test can serve as a deterrent or as an interrogation tool to elicit admissions.
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