The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses polygraph tests to know who is leaking information to news outlets. Officials from some agencies are fighting over the information they have disclosed, thus hampering immigration enforcement efforts. multiple The outlet reported.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ordered in an internal directive first reported by the Bloomberg government last month that all polygraph tests the department has given should be referred to questions about unapproved communications with nonprofits and the media.
“The Department of Homeland Security is the National Security Agency,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for DHS, in an email to Hill's partner News Nation. “We can, should, and can, do so.”
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the DHS, previously used the so-called “Lie Detector” test for new recruiting at agents.
Both Noem and President Trump's border emperor Tom Homan have both revealed the immigration enforcement raid and fixed the liability for arresting substandard US immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests.
“Their work is dangerous enough, Homan told reporters in early February.
In a video posted to X on Friday, Noem said that DHS will identify two “crime leakers” within the department and be referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for “felony prosecutions.”
“These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prisons,” Noem said. “We find and route all the leaks. They face prison time and we will get justice for the Americans.”
The number of DHS workers that have been polygraphed to date is unknown. It is also not clear whether the two employees referenced in Friday's video were discovered with the help of a lie detector test.
Workers within various institutions under the DHS are being asked to take polygraph tests, NBC News It has been reported On Saturday, we'll quote multiple sources who are familiar with the issue.
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