Though the device's efficacy is debated, it is routinely used in America's law enforcement and intelligence agencies to screen potential employees and conduct leak investigations. The FBI first began ...

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 ...

She was one of the brightest students at a leading university when the Central Intelligence Agency offered her a job as a counter-terrorism analyst. But first, the 19-year-old was warned, she had to ...

Polygraph tests can supposedly detect when a person is lying. But how can a machine do that, and can we really trust the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, CIA polygraphers collected what they hoped would be damning evidence that Michael Pillsbury should be barred from seeing government secrets. As the dossier on him grew, ...

MILWAUKEE - Police and community relations have been under a microscope following incidents of police brutality across the nation -- and in southeastern Wisconsin. One initiative now recommends ...

Polygraph testing for national security screening is little more than junk science, with results so inaccurate that they tend to be counterproductive, according to a long-awaited report released ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing ...