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6. The FBI should know (does know?) that polygraph testing is

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:18 PM

Jul 11

snake oil and only useful for tricking unknowledgeable suspects into confessing what they may otherwise not do.

One would think that FBI individuals being investigated would know that as well in addition to the several ways of deceiving polygraph testing.

Or, maybe it's all just theatre for gullible politicians and the cult.

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