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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:25 PM
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White House won't rule out polygraphs in leak probe
http://www.cnn.com/virtual/editions/europe/2000/roof/change.pop/frameset.exclude.html


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House pledged full cooperation Wednesday with a Justice Department probe into the leak of a CIA operative's name, and a spokesman did not rule out the possibility that Bush administration employees could face lie-detector tests.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday that the White House has nothing to hide in the matter.

McClellan said no one has been asked to sit for an interview with investigators, nor has anyone come forward to admit to revealing Plame's identity. Asked if full cooperation meant sitting for lie-detector tests, he said, "Full cooperation is full cooperation."


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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:27 PM
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1. Polygraphs? What ever happened to good old fashioned torture?
:evilgrin:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:29 PM
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3. There are "spies" at Gitmo
They might tell people what happens when they fly the whole crew down there for some "battery service" and we wouldn't want that.....in some sort of Orwellian surreal double speak kinda way.
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:42 PM
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11. Polygraphs are pseudoscientific nonsense
Aldridge Ames and Robert Hanson would routinely pass them without any trouble even though they both had been double agents for years. The scientist at the department of energy asked the federation of american scientist to do a study of the scientific validity of them recently (since they are now required to take them), and they determined that they are not at all effective. For some good references see:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/
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Cappurr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:29 PM
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2. Oh man.....
What I woudn't give to have Bush on a lie detector.

And if they are gonna take lie detector tests, it should be done by independents and they should have to do it in fromt of cameras. The right wing had no compunction about humiliating Bill Clinton.
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burrowowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:31 PM
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5. Bu$h
is so use to lieing that the lie detector couldn't pick it up.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:31 PM
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6. The last thing we need now is another blackout
Especially on the East Coast.

Are you from Texas?
Ummmmmm


Bzzzzzzzzzztttttzzzzzzz Oh s**t we just wiped out Nashville.......
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:30 PM
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4. "We gave everyone a polygraph and they all passed."
Polygraphs are worthless.

And they are not fully cooperating. If they were, we would know who the leakers were by now. They are stonewalling.
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:32 PM
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7. A polygraph from the justice dept? Sure...that's effective...
See, they'll do anything just as long as the show is run by AssKKKroft.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:33 PM
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8. I am sick of the word "leak"....it's too benign
Let's call it what it is: a security violation of the highest kind.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:37 PM
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9. How about torture?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 09:29 PM
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15. are you offering?
Be gentle with me.

;-)
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 09:38 PM
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17. They could outsource the torture to Egypt
I hear that's the best way to do it.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:42 PM
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10. The only way they'll allow polygraphs ...
is if Diebold makes the machines!


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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:56 PM
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12.  "Full cooperation is full cooperation."
True, they didn't rule out polygraphs, but they didn't say they'd use them either. They kind of implied it...Just like they implied that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. Now they can come back and claim they never said they'd do polygraphs.
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schultzee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 07:58 PM
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13. I have heard that Valium will make one pass the test.
Don't know if its true.
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coralrf Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 09:27 PM
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14. Ill bet they dont RULE THEM IN either...
nt
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 09:32 PM
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16. Subpoena them all
Make them pay for legal defense like they did to the
Clinton's staff.
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