The Drug Enforcement Administration has for years violated its own policy of ruling out for employment candidates who fail or cheat on a polygraph examination, according to a watchdog review, which ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas – Border Patrol is failing to hire agents fast enough to replace thousands of soon-to-be retirees, and current and former employees say overly aggressive and unaccountable polygraph ...

WASHINGTON — Can flunking an FBI job entrance exam hurt your chances of getting another government job? Derrick T. Dortch, president of Derrick T. Dortch, president of the Diversa Group, a career ...

Can you handle the truth? Regardless, it’s Tommy Platt’s job to find it out. Platt, an investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, is also the agency’s polygraph examiner. Also known as a ...

The executive branch has the authority to lay out security clearance policies and procedures, but that doesn’t mean the legislative branch doesn’t have any say in how the government issues clearance ...

Can a lie detector be made more honest? Yes, according to tech company Converus, if the human element is removed from the test administration process. It’s been 100 years since the invention of the ...

Derrick T. Dortch, president of the Diversa Group, is a career counselor who specializes in government job searches and military transition. This is adapted from a recent chat at washingtonpost.com.

Talk Show Host and Columnist at Seattle Red AM 770 The newly announced Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes failed the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) polygraph as part of the city’s pre-employment ...