Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dan Bongino Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan ...

Such a focused screening situation is like typical security screening in that there is no specific event being investigated, but it is different in that it may be possible to ask specific relevant ...

Last year, more than 73,000 Americans across the country submitted to polygraph tests to get or keep jobs with the federal government, although such screening is mostly banned in the private sector ...

It’s one of the best-kept secrets in the federal government. Information about polygraph screening is so guarded by the agencies that use it that job applicants who are tested are urged not to tell ...

In my first article in this series on the polygraph, I introduced a bit of history about the “lie detector.” Today I’ll review some of the applications of these devices in the 20th century. A report ...

The CIA, the FBI and other federal agencies are using polygraph machines more than ever to screen applicants and hunt for lawbreakers, even as scientists have become more certain that the equipment is ...

The available evidence indicates that in the context of specific-incident investigation and with inexperienced examinees untrained in countermeasures, polygraph tests as currently used have value in ...