Summary
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has ordered lie detector tests for DHS staff to identify leaks that allegedly foiled immigration raids, including a failed Colorado operation targeting Venezuelan gang members.
The directive, leaked to Bloomberg, requires polygraph questions about unauthorized communications with media and nonprofits. Despite polygraphs’ unreliability, DHS insists they are necessary for national security.
The crackdown follows frustration from Trump’s border czar Tom Homan over compromised raids and aligns with broader MAGA-era efforts to control government communication.
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All the kings horses
and all the kings men
Couldn’t make Americans think
cops were bad again
If the lie detectors don’t work, torture is always an option.
Do we call them the Gestapo yet or is it too soon?
Lie detectors are known to not work
That’s gazpacho! - Empty G.
Or Despacito
Lie detectors don’t work except as an intimidation technique so, yes, it’s Gestapo time.
They work great…
At detecting how nervous someone is.
Just completely shut at detecting when someone’s lying.
Yup. Sociopaths are invisible on the lie detector. Plus these days, it isn’t that hard to build a biofeedback practice device so people control the metrics monitored by the polygraph.
Oooh, when do we get to deploy the E-Meters?
I’m holding out for the testicle electrodes.
I’m going to sell divining rods to help find the immigrants.
I have a device to sell to the DHS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
Why is Noem wearing a bulletproof vest in a staff meeting?
Realistic assessment of the mood of people forced to be around her?
Honestly ya may not be far off, humans even profligates like those in Trumps orbit have a generally good enough ability to detect when folks are pissed at them. When said pissed folks have access to weapons, are more intelligent than you, and probably think what you are saying is beyond stupid then well wearing a comfort vest is probably the only thing keeping her from booking it out of the room.
Maybe ICE ordered a bunch of pizza the night before and the delivery kid tipped people off.
It’s a thing about the nervous systems of old world primates, like us, we’re always making those assessments.
maybe animals lovers might not like her.
She’s LARPing.
Which is why she’s ordered the lie detectors. They only know what they see in the movies, and lie detectors are one of their favorite devices.
Funniest thing about that is they only help in an all-out fire fight to protect your vital bits except the head which would have a helmet. She’s not going into any situation nearly so dangerous and if someone wanted to take her out, specifically, there’s plenty of options.
She might as well have a mall ninja sword strapped to her back.
She’s a very serious person with very serious things going on! /s
She’s worried someone will put her down like she did her dog
and her 3 horses. she has a natural fear of gravel pits, or any dugout pits.
You ever seen the dictator warlords constantly wearing miliary gear with too much polish and a thousand made up medals?
That’s why.
She wants to feel special
They’d be just as successful using a ouija board.
As long as they got their Luigi board from a witch, or a vegan.
Period question mark
Gucci just needs to come out with bullet proof vests. They won’t work for shit, but all the republican women will buy one.
“This isn’t a game,” Homan raged to the Associated Press. “We know that TDA is dangerous. Everybody can agree to that, but when they get a heads-up that we are coming, it’s only a matter of time before our officers are ambushed. Their job is dangerous enough. So we are going to address this very seriously.”
I don’t think that leaking this is a good idea, but come on. If gangs find out in advance that they’re about to be raided, are they going to disappear or seriously voluntarily going to stay and have a shootout with DHS?
Like, this can certainly mess up investigations, but I have a pretty hard time believing that it’s going to get DHS agents killed.
- Is thedailybeast.com considered a reputable news source?
- To snuff out is to kill; usually murder. Did the author mean sniff out?
I think it’s meant to “snuff out” as in “kill” the leaks, not necessarily the perpetrators. Like, we’re gonna do this to end the leaks. The wording is somewhat awkward and questionable, but not necessarily incorrect. Snuff out is used to refer to extinguishing candles, so it’s not unheard of to use it in contexts other than ending human lives.
I see your line of thinking, but let’s also remember that polygraphs wouldn’t end leaks even if they really were lie detectors. The most they could do in that fictional scenario would be to reveal the leaks; to sniff them out. To snuff them out would require some additional, separate action.
Also snuff out applies to candles only because the snuff is literally part of a candle’s wick. The phrase is not being used literally here, which leaves us with the common non-literal meaning: to murder.
I still think the most charitable interpretation is that author confused it with sniff out, and failed to consider the grisly meaning of what they wrote.
If you want to go the linguistic history route, “snuff” literally meant “to sniff at in order to examine” starting in 1810, so it’s technically (the best kind of?) correct to use it in this context, although still awkward in terms of modern colloquialisms.
I’m going as far back as the 1400s, and your 1810 usage doesn’t match any common meaning of “snuff out”, so I don’t think it really applies here. But thanks for the interesting etymological diversion. :)
In any case, polygraphs still cannot put an end to leaks, so I stand by my original interpretation.
It’s the dogs… Specifically puppies that aren’t “acting right”… They’re “leaking”…
Good thing she has experience dealing with bad dogs.
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That is the single most ridiculous picture I’ve seen all week.
And that’s saying something.
Scientology taught me that lie detectors are fake. We should use E Meters instead
what’s next, ouija boards?
Maybe they can try crystals, or magnets.
Ooo! OOO! Photograph their aura!
She gets her training and ideas from episodes of NCIS and CSI… and their neverending variants.
“What do you mean we don’t have cameras on every angle?”
*America is saved again by surveillance, tune in next week*
“Enhance. Enhance.”
“Ma’am, images don’t work that w-”
“YOU’RE NOT ENHANCING!”
It should be pretty common knowledge that lie detector tests are completely bogus and can’t be trusted. They’re not admissible in court cases. Polygraph tests are proven to be made up pseudoscience.
They might as well try using crystal pendulum tests to dowse out the national security threats.
I want to point out - the results are inadmissible, but anything you say IS admissable.
A polygraph is an interrogation technique. And to this day I still don’t know why they try to use it with so many things. Like security clearance. It doesn’t really give them any insight into anything about you, other than if you like to run your mouth
