Russell Tice, who is now working on a Ph.D. in global security studies, says the NSA “routinely uses polygraphs to terrorize the rank and file of NSA employees” and to “gather very personal information on them that they can use to blackmail them into participating in illegal and unethical conduct.”
“Polygraphs are detrimental to individuals and to national security,” says George Maschke, “because federal agencies are relying on technology that is unreliable… that is junk science.” A number of studies from the scientific community have also said polygraphs rely on pseudoscience.
