Ok I'm not going to entertain the idea that the actual FBI doesn't know how polygraphs work and how effective they really are.
This is a clear excuse to just oust whomever they don't like.
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Is the FBI really so full of abject cowards that they're all just rolling over and taking this? The US is so boned.
devolved into chaos
i love how we're still pretending things are otherwise orderly when literal nazi clowns are running the show.
Polygraphs are bullshit and easy to defeat
Basically their entire existence (as they currently exist in the justice system) was manufactured purely to fabricate evidence from nothing.
It’s not about the polygraph results. It’s if you’re smart enough to know polygraphs are bullshit and refuse to take one the opposition will use that as an implication of guilt. And because they’re bullshit and you get a “guilty” result, they’ll use that too.
That doesn't sound legal
But you could also just take it and force the results to be useless
Polygraph results are not admissible in court. Nonetheless, cases get tried in the public too.
This is crazy. The FBI was already a heavily conservative organization and now he’s dragging it into MAGA-only.
Ah yes, because those are totally a real and trustworthy technology and not some snake oil bullshit that is inadmissible in court because of how snake oil bullshit it is.
Anyway, that tracks.
You think the FBI under trump should be taken seriously? The government is an international laughing stock.
The FBI before Trump shouldn't have been taken seriously when it was treating shit like BLM as dangerous while ignoring white power terrorist groups.
But it should be taken even less seriously now.
The government is an international laughing stock.
Yes.
Or cointelpro decades before that, probably the same thing honestly
I think we’re confusing “taking seriously” with “respecting”
inadmissible in court
The judicial coup is out of control /s
Nothing like a moron running the FBI amright?
A stress detector mislabled as a lie detector. Fuck right off..
Every photo of this looks like he just mistrusted a fart
He looks like he's just as surprised as everyone else that he's actually in charge of the FBI... It's imposter syndrome, but the dude is an actual imposter.
The fall of the US Empire on full display.
don't they know that polygraphs don't actually work? it's taught in psych 101 ffs
Polygraphs have wires and knobs though, so that makes them scientific, high-tech and modern - otherwise the only way to do their witch hubt would be dunking agents in a pond or stripping them naked and looking for satan's birthmarks...
What else floats on water?
A church ?
So if they weigh the same as a church...
I mean they did such in Ozark. The church selling drugs at church lol.
They work, but only 50% of the time...
They work, but only ~~5~~0% of the time…
They probably do and just don't care.
I'm sure they have a whole guidebook on how to present them to a judge in such a way that they can be used as evidence for baseless search warrants.
This is basically what J. Edgar Hoover did. I didn't think he ever used a polygraph specifically, but he did ideological purges all the time.
The FBI has always been like this.
(I would say hi to my agent, but let's be honest, he's probably been laid off already)
He’s been replaced by ai 100%
His children's book for anyone who may have missed it. I think there's actually a whole series of them.
Fuck, I read some reviews from that page. What a depressing situation. I'm sure many are bots, but still.
Conservatives should be outlawed as they pose a serious danger to children imo.
There is a
horse
loose
in the hospital
Has the search for his neck begun?
None dare call it FASCISM.
No kidding, this guy is the most shady looking m’fucker in US politics.
This guy is a bigger pansy than trump. Anyone that paranoid is an evil coward
Now do him
fascism in progress
Fines tripled or quadrupled, depending on what they feel like.
He has that sold my soul look about him.