The Trump loyalist has subjected dozens of his own team to the lie-detector test.
  • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’m Canadian so idk about FBI, but I do know a guy that became an RCMP officer, and he said they administered a polygraph, and he indicated everyone seemed to believe it was a real thing.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      Isn’t that just the police?

      FBI almost always have a criminology or psychology degree and know way before applying to the FBI that the test doesn’t work.

      But the type of person to join the FBI would 100% Google it first and read studies. At least wikipedia.

      Jocks go CIA, nerds go FBI.

      It’s not as true as it used to be, especially with so many new agencies over the last 20 years, but it’s generally true.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s weird, I would have thought the other way around. Jocks go fbi, nerds go cia. Or at least NSA.

        But anyway, Patel should then also know better, so why bother polygraohing people?

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          FBI has much stricter rules of engagement…

          The CIA operates abroad and historically can do whatever they want including but not limited to full on government coups.

          But yeah, since 9/11 we’ve got like 3x the security agencies. People can go anywhere now

      • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        The RCMP is the federal police that investigate federal crimes, like the FBI, and also do local policing for areas without a local police force.

        Nowadays the nerds either go corporate or are too autistic to apply to anything.