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More than the acts themselves, this also means they're now potentially hiring people dumb enough to admit to the federal government that they engaged in these acts
No that's the kind of person you want. Someone who is unblackmailable. Someone who will casually admit what you should be their deepest darkest secrets.
Honestly I've a feeling this reveals more that the FBI can glean whatever evidence they need about people easily and already knew about this stuff beforehand
They're asked while under polygraph examination. They can't fool them by denying it without extensive training to fool those machines.
i've never tried it but i read somewhere that all you have to do is dig your nails into your palm really hard during the calibration process. polygraph is snake oil for a lot of reasons but one of them is that there's a lot of ways to make yourself sweat a little.
The polygraph is pseudoscience. It had no basis in reality