TIPSHEET_ This Is Why Homeland Security Employees are Taking Lie Detector Tests

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This Is Why Homeland Security Employees are Taking Lie Detector Tests

Jeff Charles | May 22, 2025 5:15 PM

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The Homeland Security Department (DHS) has been administering lie detector tests to employees to root out those who might be leaking sensitive information to the press.

The Wall Street Journal reported that DHS, along with several other federal agencies, has been trying to prevent employees from providing sensitive information to media outlets — especially those that are clearly biased against the Trump administration.

Polygraph exams have long been a routine tool used inside intelligence agencies, including DHS, as part of security clearances, job applications and certain investigations. But under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s direction, they have been used to search for leaks of information that Noem and her top deputies consider disloyal or embarrassing, according to current and former officials familiar with the practice. The information the employees are accused of leaking often isn’t classified, the people said.

The exams are being administered by a little-known office inside the Transportation Security Administration, the part of DHS commonly known for screening passengers and baggage at airports. Under previous administrations, agents within TSA’s polygraph program worked on criminal or administrative investigations, according to the department’s website, and the program was used, for example, to test airport employees accused of theft of a passenger’s property.

Several employees at immigration agencies—along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a part of DHS that President Trump has moved to dismantle—have been asked to take polygraph exams, the people said. Those who have been asked to take exams range from top staffers in agency leadership to employees in media offices within the department who are authorized to speak with reporters but are suspected of sharing unapproved information.

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