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Comment by tootie

4 hours ago

That's beside the paint of political appointees getting special treatment. Patel's FBI has been using polygraphs extensively to test political loyalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/fbi-polygraph...

> according to two people with knowledge of the questions and others familiar with similar accounts

After all the examples of the media getting caught playing fast and loose with anonymous sources, I’m going to take this one with a huge grain of salt.

  • DHS and Musk’s people confirmed it. See Reuters back in May 21.

    • From Teuters: "officials quickly launched an investigation to find out who was leaking to the press"

      Leading is a bit different than "loyalty tests" isn't it?

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