Reports: Sessions Wants NSC Staff To Undergo Polygraph Test To Find Leakers

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions smiles after giving testimony before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to "examine certain intelligence matters relating to the 2016 United States election" o... United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions smiles after giving testimony before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to "examine certain intelligence matters relating to the 2016 United States election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. In his prepared statement Attorney General Sessions said it was an "appalling and detestable lie" to accuse him of colluding with the Russians. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP (RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York City) - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions proposed putting National Security Council staffers through a lie detector test to identify those leaking information to the media, several outlets reported late Sunday.

Axios reported that as recently as last month, Sessions proposed “a one-time, one-issue, polygraph test” of every NSC staff member regarding leaked transcripts of President Donald Trump’s phone calls with foreign heads of state.

CNN reported, citing an unnamed source familiar with Sessions’ thinking, that the attorney general wanted to focus on finding out who leaked full transcripts of Trump’s phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which the Washington Post published in full in August.

Sessions was interested in those leaks, according to CNN, because of the limited number of people who had access to the transcripts.

A day after the Washington Post published transcripts of Trump’s calls with Peña Nieto and Turnbull, Sessions announced a crackdown on intelligence leaks and said he would review “policies affecting media subpoenas,” suggesting that the Department of Justice might pursue journalists in court in order to reveal their sources.

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  1. Will this include Donnie’s Russian hookers?

  2. Jeff Sessions, the man who believes Reefer Madness is a documentary, thinks lie detector tests are scientific.

  3. Avatar for rb639 rb639 says:

    Will it include Trump and his family members? This doesn’t seem like a wise idea. My guess is that a lot of people will refuse.

  4. All distractions from the clear and present danger of the Mueller investigations.

    Makes sense to de-fund the investigations so the accused administration can chase after the windmills of leaks and illegal votes, huh?

  5. Good lord…he really IS a little NAZI isn’t he>

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