During the morning of this Saturday, March 8, the Department of National Security in the United States made the decision to start testing polygraph to its employees to determine who could be filtering information to the media about operations of immigrationaccording to the American television channel, NBC.
Department’s plans to perform these tests were first informed last Thursday, March 6 by the spokesman of the US government agency that is responsible for the security Public, who did not immediately respond to a request for comments by the media.
According to NBC, the executive department has begun to carry out polygraph tests to employees to “find leaks“, taking into account that the border tsar, Tom homanHe mentioned that the arrests of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) have been lower than expected due to “recent leaks.”
In turn, the Secretary of the Department of Security, Kristi Noem, He commented that Migratory raids have not met expectations of the president Donald Trump “Thanks to the dissemination of confidential information”, mainly on planned operations and data on the cities where operations are planned.
Information filtration
Through a video posted on his official social networks last Friday, March 7, Kristi Noem announced that the National Security Department had identified two “filters of information “that have been sharing data on their operations and” putting in danger“The life of migratory agents.
“We plan to process these two individuals and hold them responsible for everything they have caused. These filters are criminals And we are preparing to send other perpetrators to imprison them for these serious crimes, since they can face even 10 years in federal prison“The department secretary added.
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“We will find and eradicate all those who leake information. They will face prison sentences and get justice for the American people,” Noem added; However, it is not clear if those employees were identified by a polygraph test, because allegedly The measure was set out later.
At the moment, the number of workers who have been not yet been revealed evaluated or that they can face polygraph tests: however, the American television channel, NBC, reported that, so far, only Employees of the agencies of the Security Department have undergone these evidence.
We have identified criminal leakers within @Dhsgov and are prepare to refer to the perpetrators to the @ThejusticeDapT For Felony Prosecutions.
In individuals face up to 10 Years in Federal Prison.
We Will Find and Root out All Leakers. They Will Face Prison Time & We Will … pic.twitter.com/q4gokxxdhy
– Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 7, 2025
In accordance with the provisions of the American media, polygraph evidence within the US Department of Security “are not new”, since these have been used in the past, mainly when the Customs Office and Border Protection It has the need to examine the new employees.
In spite of that, it was no time mentioned that the use of the “detector machines of lies“They were being used to make federal agency employees answer specific questions about the filtration of classified documentsor confidential information, about these immigration service operations.