Michael Flynn says Mar-a-Lago staff should be subjected to polygraph tests to catch Trump cabinet pick 'leaker'
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 12 November 2024 21:48 GMT
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is calling for Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago staff to be subjected to polygraph tests after a series of press reports about the incoming presidents cabinet picks. Flynn, who briefly served in the Trump administration, made the remarks on X/Twitter on Tuesday in response to a tweet by controversial far-right activist Laura Loomer.
It would be very easy to catch someone doing this. Give everyone that is there a one question poly (this is very easy to do). Ask them one question, have you communicated with any media outlets in the past week? Youll see the leaks disappear, Flynn said in response to a tweet by Loomer, a hard-right conspiracy theorist who traveled with Trump on the campaign trail.
On Monday, The New York Times reported that Trump had nominated Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio to serve as his secretary of state. CNN reported that hed also selected South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Both of the outlets cited unnamed sources familiar with the presidents thinking.
Reacting to news of the apparent leaks, Loomer wrote on X: Why are people inside Mar-a-Lago leaking Trumps possible cabinet picks to the media? Not a good sign that things are being leaked already. People should be respecting President Trumps privacy and the privacy of the transition team.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-flynn-leaks-trump-cabinet-b2645900.html
Grokenstein
(5,841 posts)multigraincracker
(34,149 posts)Truth serum or torture.
More up his alley.
Farmer-Rick
(11,461 posts)Well, not efficient unless you're W or Cheney. But more fun for MAGAts. And since a lot of his staff is Hispanic, he can deport them afterwards.
If they record the torture sessions Trump can rewind it and watch it over and over again. Like he did with his attack on the Capitol.
Mosby
(17,528 posts)Two, polygraphs do not detect deception.
It's pseudoscience used by cops. That's it.
multigraincracker
(34,149 posts)She refused to take it and the property in question, magically turned up.
The tech that gave me the test asked the most embarrassing question to begin the session. I answered them. He explained to me that 90% of those that take the test confessed after being asked those questions. I just focused on my breathing and the needle never moved. He said I passed, but he didnt believe me. He worked for the police.
Just goes to show.
notroot
(267 posts)The media can go fuck itself with a razor-wrapped baseball bat for all I give a fuck.
notroot
(267 posts)Just one outrage after another. There's no sorting them by priority.
When everything is a priority, then NOTHING is a priority.
orangecrush
(21,933 posts)Faux pas
(15,385 posts)and flynn should be hung for treason.
Marthe48
(19,117 posts)right now.
Faux pas
(15,385 posts)previous "administration" and most of the magat congress effers. Lol might as well dip into the supreme court too. Let's have a field day
TomWilm
(1,857 posts)A particular problem is that polygraph research has not separated placebo-like effects (the subject's belief in the efficacy of the procedure) from the actual relationship between deception and their physiological responses. One reason that polygraph tests may appear to be accurate is that subjects who believe that the test works and that they can be detected may confess or will be very anxious when questioned. If this view is correct, the lie detector might be better called a fear detector.
Without a better theoretical understanding of the mechanisms by which deception functions, however, development of a lie detection technology seems highly problematic. For now, although the idea of a lie detector may be comforting, the most practical advice is to remain skeptical about any conclusion wrung from a polygraph.
https://www.apa.org/topics/cognitive-neuroscience/polygraph
travelingthrulife
(809 posts)These people want nothing to do with truth. If they were hooked up they would probably start the lie detector on fire.
Farmer-Rick
(11,461 posts)The guy was just practicing. So, it was all just normal questions like do you have curly hair? Do you eat bread?
I failed miserably. Seems I was nervous and everything I said came out as a lie. Also the straps and clips weren't tight enough. He kept readjusting them.
Mosby
(17,528 posts)Changes in breathing, heart rate, skin conductivity don't have a fucking thing to do with deception. You could wire a person up and ask them where they were born, let's say they say "Mars". None of those measures will change, because the entire polygraph control question technique is a fraud.
It's basically a interrogation mind-fuck technique used by cops. If it "works" it's because people believe it works
Farmer-Rick
(11,461 posts)All the these years I thought I had done something strange in answering.
C_U_L8R
(45,713 posts)Start with the one in the diaper.
travelingthrulife
(809 posts)n/t
taxi
(1,989 posts)Clearly it is the fault of the bus buy or the server. Oh, mea culpa, the coffee boy.
Vinca
(51,111 posts)the people he purports to hate so much. Will he raid his own golf clubs?
Farmer-Rick
(11,461 posts)Mass Deportations, I always wondered if he was going to include his own staff.
ck4829
(36,024 posts)That Michael Flynn?
jmbar2
(6,142 posts)NT
area51
(12,151 posts)Solly Mack
(92,917 posts)33taw
(2,859 posts)tonekat
(2,015 posts)What a joke.
Jacson6
(763 posts)It is much more reliable!
Mz Pip
(27,906 posts)Thats what I would expect from Flynn.
VeryProgressive
(60 posts)Thats not how polygraphs administered. You cant ask just one question as you have to have other questions by which to use as a baseline.
orangecrush
(21,933 posts)Forget I asked.
tanyev
(44,590 posts)How about you start with all the people from that time that are still around, OK, Mikey?
Martin68
(24,625 posts)Autumn
(46,403 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,674 posts)Disloyalty will be punished severely.
Joe_Gadway
(49 posts)Michael Flynn should be polygraphed and asked about collusion with Russia in 2016.
Better yet: "Have you ever committed any crimes we don't know about yet?"
And go from there.
Harker
(15,030 posts)Hekate
(94,900 posts)Make sure you carry your papers with you.
Harker
(15,030 posts)and they might well die in Nazi America.
Harker
(15,030 posts)Hekate
(94,900 posts)His late mother came from Austria; his late father from Poland. My husband and his brothers were born in Belgium after WWII their parents met after the slaughter was over. They came to NY in the 1950s.
So we know.
My in-laws were in the Kassel area as children, heavily bombed on account of heavy industry and the object of house to house combat and armored counterattacks in April of 1945. His legs were badly burned in a bombing raid, and he's still traumatized by what he saw in the hospital.
They came to New York in the late 50s.
Such horror.
ffr
(23,127 posts)It will have a chilling effect throughout our military rank and file.
Good job America. You couldn't bring yourself to vote for the lady, AGAIN! You fucked yourself and all of us!
red dog 1
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Hekate
(94,900 posts)Start there, Flynn
IcyPeas
(22,646 posts)Why blame the staff?
Hekate
(94,900 posts)
but in the outdoor dining room over dinner with the Japanese delegation, in sight and hearing of all Trumps Mar A Lago guests, and the guests were allowed to photograph the papers on the table
And that was just part of the opening act of Trumps first term.
Why blame the staff, except they are easy pickings to brutalize?
Javaman
(63,123 posts)Javaman
(63,123 posts)PedroXimenez
(600 posts)get ready, this will happen through Trump's entire term.
Karasu
(173 posts)...still have a platform?
CentralMass
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JohnnyRingo
(19,342 posts)That man is vile.
LiberalFighter
(53,490 posts)jmowreader
(51,519 posts)There's a decent chance Trump "leaked" the names himself as a means of owning the libs.
Oliver Bolliver Butt
(107 posts)With one question, you'll have no control sample against which to judge whether the answer to that question is truthful. Just another thing that happens when you put morons in charge, I guess.