HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:10:08 GMT Server: Apache Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:16:05 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 7516 Content-Type: application/xml https://antipolygraph.org/YaBBImages/avatars/ap.gif https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10/08/dni-tulsi-gabbard-ordered-feasibility-review-of-random-polygraph-screening/ 2025-10-08T07:10:00+02:00 James LaPorta reports for CBS News that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard within the last month ordered intelligence agencies to review whether random polygraphing of employees and contractors would be feasible. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10/05/dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-anti-leak-polygraph-directive-disclosed/ 2025-10-05T21:30:00+02:00 AntiPolygraph.org has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act a 12 February 2025 memorandum titled, "Use of Polygraph Examinations in Support of Personnel Security Determinations for Initial or Continued Eligibility for Access to Classified Information or Eligibility to Hold a Sensitive Position." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10/02/pentagon-plans-random-polygraphs-for-leakers/ 2025-10-02T10:15:00+02:00 Alex Horton, Tara Copp, and Ellen Nakashima report for the Washington Post in a 1 October 2025 article titled, "Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/07/29/number-of-federal-polygraph-operators-reportedly-down-about-30/ 2025-07-29T10:45:00+02:00 Marko Hakamaa reports for SecurityClearanceJobsBlog.com that as a result of the Deferred Resignation Program and Voluntary Early Retirement Authority offers, "the number of certified polygraphers has dropped by approximately 30%." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/07/27/white-house-reportedly-directed-department-of-defense-to-stop-polygraphing-for-journalistic-sources/ 2025-07-27T08:00:00+02:00 The action reportedly came after Patrick Weaver, a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, "raised alarm to senior officials there about being targeted." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/07/12/fbi-employees-asked-on-polygraph-whether-they-have-cast-aspersions-on-director-kash-patel/ 2025-07-12T12:30:00+02:00 New York Times reporter Adam Goldman, following up on his earlier reporting that senior FBI executives were being polygraphed at a "rapid rate," provides new details about the FBI's use of polygraphs to go after journalistic sources in a new article titled, "The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/07/12/former-cia-officer-brian-oneill-on-why-the-trump-administrations-polygraph-campaign-against-leakers-is-unlikely-to-succeed/ 2025-07-12T12:15:00+02:00 Former CIA officer Brian O’Neill has written a cogent and well-researched essay for the non-profit, independent news organization, The Conversation titled, "Trump administration's lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed and could divert energy from national security priorities." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/07/05/reporter-kevin-gosztola-speaks-with-antipolygraph-org-co-founder-george-maschke-about-the-trump-administrations-reliance-on-lie-detectors/ 2025-07-05T12:00:00+02:00 Journalist Kevin Gosztola spoke with AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke for his Dissenter Update podcast. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/06/24/polygrapher-david-goldberg-interviews-antipolygraph-org-co-founder-george-maschke/ 2025-06-23T09:00:00+02:00 On 14 May 2025, AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke challenged polygrapher David Goldberg, host of the Inside the Polygraph podcast, to explain why, if as Goldberg had maintained in a podcast episode on pre-employment polygraph screening, "you can't [beat a polygraph test]," any polygrapher would care whether a person has looked up how to beat a polygraph test? https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/06/08/john-young-rip/ 2025-06-08T12:15:00+02:00 While traveling abroad recently, I was saddened to learn that New York architect John Young, who co-founded the website Cryptome, died on 28 March 2025. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/06/02/senior-fbi-executives-reportedly-being-polygraphed-at-a-rapid-rate/ 2025-06-02T11:30:00+02:00 In an article titled "Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials," New York Times national security reporter Adam Goldman notes the increased use of polygraphs under FBI Director Kash Patel's leadership to discourage employees from speaking with journalists. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/23/trump-administration-using-polygraphs-to-investigate-unclassified-leaks/ 2025-05-23T21:30:00+02:00 Marisa Taylor, Ted Hesson, Alexandra Alper, and Helen Coster report for Reuters in an article titled, "Trump officials are using polygraph tests to flush out even minor leaks." Their reporting is based on "conversations with nine current and former federal government employees under the current administration who described a concerted effort to expose leaks of all kinds." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/22/retired-federal-polygraph-operators-awarded-42-million-federal-contract/ 2025-05-22T07:30:00+02:00 The Department of Defense has announced that Capital Center for Credibility Assessment Corporation, a private company run by retired federal polygraphers Patrick J. Roche, Donnie Dutton, and Donald Krapohl, has been awarded a $41,868,715 five-year contract to provide polygraph services for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/21/on-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-polygraph-crusade/ 2025-05-21T10:00:00+02:00 Last month, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem boasted to broadcaster Tim Pool, "We're polygraphing everybody!" This month, in an article titled "Inside Kristi Noem's Polygraph Operation," Michelle Hackman and Tarini Parti report for the Wall Street Journal that Noem's polygraph interrogations often concern the leak of information that is not classified. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1747200478 2025-05-14T07:30:00+02:00 AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke challenges polygrapher David Goldberg to explain why if, as he claims, you can't beat a polygraph test, any polygrapher would care whether anyone has looked up how to beat a polygraph test. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/10/senior-pentagon-advisor-ricky-buria-allegedly-failed-to-pass-a-polygraph-in-leak-investigation/ 2025-05-01T17:30:00+02:00 Hugo Lowell reports for the Guardian in a 9 May 2025 article titled, "White House to take choice of Pentagon chief of staff out of Hegseth's hands" that the White House Office of Presidential Personnel has forbidden Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from making Ricky Buria, whom Hegseth designated in April 2025 as a "Senior Advisor," his chief of staff. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/01/of-polygraphs-and-e-meters/ 2025-05-01T17:30:00+02:00 ClearanceJobs.com director of content Lindy Kyzer and former security clearance attorney Sean Bigley discussed the similarities between the U.S. government's polygraph screening practices and the Church of Scientology's practice of E-meter auditing for the ClearedCast podcast. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/05/01/jeff-stein-on-the-trump-administrations-polygraph-crusade-against-leakers/ 2025-05-01T10:30:00+02:00 Veteran journalist Jeff Stein comments on the Trump Administration's efforts to identify employees who are speaking with journalists without authorization in a paywalled Substack post titled, "Trump [and] Co's Polygraph Pandemonium." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/30/jack-hopkins-on-polygraph-screening/ 2025-04-30T09:45:00+02:00 Podcaster Jack Hopkins has published on Substack a thoughtful and well-researched essay on polygraph screening titled, "Kash Patel's Deception: Stop Believing Polygraphs-Science Unmasks the Real Lies." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/29/fbi-begins-polygraph-hunt-for-leakers/ 2025-04-29T09:30:00+02:00 Ellen Nakashima and Hannah Natanson report for the Washington Post in an article titled, "FBI, national security agencies using polygraphs for 'leak' hunts." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/25/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-threatened-to-hook-senior-officers-up-to-a-fucking-polygraph/ 2025-04-25T07:45:00+02:00 Nancy A. Youssef, Alexander Ward, and Vera Bergengruen report for the Wall Street Journal in a 24 April 2025 article titled, "Polygraph Threats, Leaks and Infighting: The Chaos Inside Hegseth's Pentagon." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/24/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-were-polygraphing-everybody/ 2025-04-24T10:30:00+02:00 In a video clip posted to X on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem boasted to broadcaster Tim Pool, "we're polygraphing everybody!" https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/23/pentagon-officials-warned-of-potential-polygraph-testing/ 2025-04-23T10:30:00+02:00 Michael Evans of the London Times reports in a paywalled article titled "Pete Hegseth's Pentagon descends into fear, loathing and lie detectors." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/13/about-50-dhs-employees-polygraphed-in-recent-weeks/ 2025-04-13T10:35:00+02:00 Gabe Cohen reports for CNN in a 12 April 2025 article titled, "Dozens of DHS staffers, including top FEMA officials, given lie detector tests over alleged leaks." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/05/polygraphs-used-in-ukrainian-us-minerals-deal-leak-investigation/ 2025-04-13T10:30:00+02:00 Christopher Miller reports for the Financial Times in an article titled, "Kyiv probes leak of US minerals deal with polygraph tests." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/04/05/acting-fema-administrator-cameron-hamilton-polygraphed-in-dhs-leak-investigation/ 2025-04-05T10:00:00+02:00 Thomas Frank reports for Politico that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subjected Cameron Hamilton, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to a polygraph "test" in connection with a leak investigation. In this instance, it appears that no information that could credibly be construed to be properly classified had in fact "leaked" or that any crime had been committed, but rather that accurate media reporting on plans to radically shrink FEMA had embarrassed DHS Secretary Noem. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/03/22/dod-may-use-polygraphs-in-musk-pentagon-visit-leak-investigation/ 2025-03-22T09:00:00+02:00 Following a Thursday, 20 March 2025 report by the New York Times that "[t]he Pentagon was scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military's plan for any war that might break out with China," Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's chief of staff, Joseph R. "Joe" Kasper on Friday, 21 March signed a memorandum announcing the beginning of an investigation "into unauthorized disclosures" and seeking support from the Director for Defense Intelligence (Counterintelligence, Law Enforcement, and Security). https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/03/17/arizona-department-of-public-safety-appointed-daniel-wayne-caputo-head-of-polygraph-unit-despite-arizona-supreme-court-finding-of-noncompliance/ 2025-03-17T11:00:00+02:00 Documents obtained under the Arizona Public Records Act and made available to AntiPolygraph.org raise serious questions regarding the current head of the Arizona Department of Safety’s (AZDPS’s) polygraph unit, Daniel Wayne Caputo. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/03/11/george-maschke-on-dhs-polygraph-screening-for-leakers/ 2025-03-11T21:00:00+02:00 On Sunday, 9 March 2025, journalist James Menendez spoke for the BBC World Service’s Newshour program with AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's decision to use polygraph screening in an attempt to ferret out leakers. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/03/09/dhs-begins-polygraph-hunt-for-leakers/ 2025-03-09T09:15:00+02:00 Julia Ainsley and Jonathan Allen report for NBC News that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started using polygraphs in an attempt to find employees suspected of leaking operational information to the press. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/03/06/dcsa-profiles-ncca-polygraph-instructor-mark-b-pszenny/ 2025-03-05T06:30:00+02:00 John Joyce writes for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) about Mark Pszenny, an instructor at the federal polygraph school, the National Center for Credibility Assessment (NCCA), with a focus on his talent as a musician. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1740390013 2025-02-24T10:40:00+02:00 On Sunday, 23 February 2025, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he has chosen political commentator Dan Bongino, a former New York Police Department officer and U.S. Secret Service special agent, to serve as deputy director of the FBI. Bongino's opinions on polygraphy may thus be a factor in FBI polygraph policy going forward. Regrettably, Bongino seems to be a believer in the evil art. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1740313561 2025-02-23T13:26:00+02:00 After nearly three years of running a Rocket.Chat server, we're retiring it and switching to SimpleX Chat, a secure messaging service that offers some privacy advantages. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/02/20/utah-victims-deserve-justice-not-polygraphs/ 2025-02-20T06:00:00+02:00 Daily Utah Chronicle opinion writer Charlotte Hansen advocates for passage of a bill that would prohibit the use of a polygraph examination on a victim of a sexual offense. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/02/18/dhs-adds-question-about-unauthorized-communications-with-media-and-nonprofit-organizations-to-polygraph-screening-protocol/ 2025-02-19T06:00:00+02:00 Ellen M. Gilmer reports for Bloomberg Government in a paywalled article. Excerpt: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned employees that polygraph tests will be used to help crack down on leaks that agency officials say have foiled immigration enforcement plans. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/02/18/lithuanian-ministry-of-defense-wants-to-polygraph-foreigners/ 2025-02-18T16:30:00+02:00 Following the Ukrainian government’s recent decision to start polygraphing foreign volunteers, Lithuanian news site LRT.lt reports that the country’s Ministry of Defense wants to polygraph foreign civilians. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/02/15/cvsa-con-man-charles-humble-sued-for-fraud-again/ 2025-02-15T17:30:00+02:00 Former Arkansas Department of Corrections employee Trayesha Booth has filed a lawsuit against Charles Humble and his companies, NITV, LLC and NITV Federal Services, LCC. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/02/13/ukraine-enacts-polygraph-requirement-for-foreigners-seeking-to-join-armed-forces/ 2025-02-13T23:30:00+02:00 What could possibly go wrong? https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/01/13/cbp-drops-questions-about-illegal-drug-use-from-pre-employment-polygraph-screening/ 2025-01-13T23:30:00+02:00 A moderator of the U.S. government-controlled Reddit community r/borderpatrolapplicant writes that as of January 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will no longer ask applicants about drug use during pre-employment polygraph screening. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2024/07/21/steve-wilkos-show-guest-kandie-meinhart-passed-polygraph-but-pleaded-guilty-to-murder-of-infant-daughter/ 2024-09-25T07:30:00+02:00 Roselyn Romero reports for The Oaklandside that the City Council of Oakland, California, has approved contracts totaling $800,000 to two private companies for the polygraph screening of Oakland Police Department applicants. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2024/07/21/steve-wilkos-show-guest-kandie-meinhart-passed-polygraph-but-pleaded-guilty-to-murder-of-infant-daughter/ 2024-07-21T15:00:00+02:00 On Thursday, 18 July 2024, Kandie Alisha Meinhart of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in a plea agreement pleaded guilty to third degree murder in connection with the death of her infant daughter, Li'Aziah Thomas, and was sentenced to 30-60 years in prison. Meinhart had previously professed innocence in the matter.