r/usssapplicant logo Reddit is a popular social media website. It includes a community (or “subreddit”) “for U.S. Secret Service applicants” called r/usssapplicant which, at the time of writing, is moderated by three U.S. Secret Service special agents and a former Uniformed Division...
Lok Darjee reports for the Guardian in an article dated Saturday, 11 July 2026 and titled, “Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear.” Excerpt: Multiple current and former DHS officials told the Guardian that they had witnessed or personally been...
Q COSTA RICA reports that the country’s Attorney General, Carlo Díaz, is unwilling to submit to polygraph screening conducted by a private company, as Costa Rica’s new president, Laura Fernández, is requiring of members of her “Fuerza Élite” (Elite Force). As previously reported by the Tico Times,...
In May 2026, the newly inaugurated president of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández Delgado, ordered polygraph screening of senior officials as part of her anticorruption campaign. Her polygraph dragnet has now led to the removal of seven police directors from their posts, the Costa Rican Tico Times...
HPSCI Ranking Member Jim Himes In a 10 June 2026 letter to President Trump, Democratic members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) criticized his decision to appoint Bill Pulte as Acting Director of Intelligence. They urged him to “rescind his appointment...
On Sunday, 7 June 2026, on CNN’s State of the Union weekly program, Dana Bash interviewed U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) about President Trump’s appointment of William J. “Bill” Pulte to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence,...
Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado (Facebook portrait) The English-language Costa Rican newspaper Tico Times reports that the country’s new president, Laura Fernández Delgado, who was inaugurated on 8 May 2026, has ordered polygraph screening of senior government officials in an...