FBI, National Security Authorities with Polygraphs for “Leck” junior

The increase was supported by the new legal guidelines of the Attorney General Pam Bondi, which enable the Ministry of Justice to invite the personal communication of the reporters and to expand the scope of potential criminal persecution in order not only to lick “chaos and crap” in the government.

However, the current and former civil servants find that the wider scope could contain information that is simply embarrassing or undermine the administration's views.

“People try to keep their heads low,” said a former FBI field office, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke about the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. “Morality is in the toilet. … when you see people who are examined, or names [of agents who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases] To be handed over to the doj what the f —? “

According to the current and former civil servants, a competitive defense minister Pete Hegseth has threatened the use of polygraphs in the Pentagon and demands that some high -ranking departments are carried out in a lie, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The feeling of fear is noticeable. Some officials who have left the government under a Buy out and usually feel less limited when they speak to the news media refuses to speak while they are officially still on the salary statement. Even contractors with security checks say that they cannot take any risk if they are asked in their next polygraph test whether they were in contact with journalists.

“It's a toxic environment,” said an official with a strictly secret release. “Firstly, you have the uncertainty not to know whether they are fired or not. Then there is the witch hunt to find the whistleblower that uncover the inability and bad administration of agencies. They try to silence those who do not follow the party line.”

This officer and other pointed out to the dismissal of General Timothy Hagh, who until the beginning of this month the national security authority and the US cyber command as well as the layoffs and early rest of dozens of experienced employees of the Department of Homeland Security in cyber security and warning insurance of the Department of Homeland Security, Chinese, North Korean and Irish Hacker, directed.

Hagh, whose dismissal was not accompanied by an explanation,, according to Laura Loomer, a right -wing extremist activist who asked Trump – in an extremely unusual meeting of the White House, to remove him. The move was outraged by democratic legislators.

“This is quite astonishing that the president has decided to relieve someone in such an important position as General Hagh with the threats as they are,” said the democratic representative Chrissy Houlahan from Pennsylvania in an interview this month.

In the past few weeks, the Pentagon about the forced departures of several of Hegseth's top helpers, which allegedly licked against the news media, which abused the secretary and included “sensitive communication” with high -ranking defense officers.

The workforce has moved the combination of summarizing layoffs, polygraph threats and leak tracking.

“People are afraid,” said a former lawyer of the high -ranking secret services, who was involved in leak examinations under the Obama government.

“The difference today is that they are not only looking for people who escaped the stewarded information,” said the former official. “You are looking for people who escape negative information, which does not necessarily violate the law,” he said, referring to information that the administration considers to be embarrassing or that questions its version of events.

In the office of the director of the National Secret Service, a former civil servant said dozens of experienced employees – many of the climate change – have recently left the agency and have either made a buyout or early retirement.

“There is definitely a culture of fear that there will be a personal retaliation if, as in any way, it takes up a light or share details about what happens in the organization – not even the transfer of classification information,” said the former civil servant.

A defense officer said that the four stars with whom he worked with the paracting of Hegseth's language started to be constantly about the need to be patriotic war subjects. “You use the right words so that they are not fired,” said the official.

“In the past, Candor was appreciated as a positive feature among the military leaders,” said a second defense officer. “Today people no longer feel safe to have an opinion that may not be able to do against the procedure [defense secretary] or the [president]. “”

This month, Loomer asked the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, openly, “every single employee in the secret services”, especially those who have served under the bidges to “clean” to “clean” Leakers.

“Why do we wait for something bad to happen?” Loomer on X.

Polygraphent tests are required for large intelligence authorities in order to determine the authorization for employment and continued access to classified materials. Such tests generally take place every five years.

But polygraphs are not lie detectors, said Steven Aftergood, an expert in secret service policy, formerly in the Federation of American scientists. “They are stress -detectors. If the questions asked are disturbing for some reason, you can accelerate impulse, even if you have not done anything wrong. So do not measure polygraphs no truth or falsehood. They measure stress.”

Aftergood said she was susceptible to false positive and negative negative, and found that the former CIA investment officer Aldrich Ames was famous for two polygraphent tests while they were spied on for the Soviet Union. Ames serves a lifelong prison sentence.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security began carrying out polygraphent tests over employees last month to find out who may be based on the news media information about immigration operations, NBC News reported. Dozens of emergency management agency employees were carried out this month fan detect site tests, reported CNN.