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At least six career employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were placed on paid leave this summer after organizing a polygraph exam that CISA’s acting director, Madhu ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is disputing reports that acting Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Madhu Gottumukkala failed a polygraph after seeking access ...

The Department of Defense is considering measures that will require more than 5,000 Pentagon personnel to be subjected to random polygraph testing and strict nondisclosure agreements in an effort to ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, according to two people ...

Current and former officials say the crackdown at the FBI, the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence is creating a climate of fear and harming national security.

Even if polygraph tests are not accurate, the threat of a test can serve as a deterrent or as an interrogation tool to elicit admissions. Leonard Saxe is a professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and ...

Further spurred by another negative polygraph experience, the resulting deep dive on polygraphs and examination methods ...