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Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Polygraphs provide authoritarians the excuse to get rid of people.
The same way that scientology uses auditing. The point is to instil fear and doubt into whomever you're measuring so that you can manipulate them.
So, they are extremely useful.