[Intelforum] Accused FBI/White House Spy Passed FBI Polygraph

[George W. Maschke]

John Chambers wrote:

>	This argument only holds if you assume that he was active as a
>spy at the time of the polygraph. If he wasn't then it doesn't hold.
>
>	The argument for more frequent polygraphs is therefore made
>stronger.
>  
>

According to ABC News, Aragoncillo stole classified documents while at 
the vice president's office, which is well before he would have passed 
his FBI pre-employment polygraph:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1

The Aragoncillo case seems to be a pretty clear failure of the polygraph 
to detect or deter espionage.

George W. Maschke