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Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Kash Patel's Polygraph-Palooza!

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

New reporting reveals that FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered more than two dozen polygraph examinations - lie detector tests - for the people surrounding him at the FBI and others in the Trump administration. Wow! Talk about presuming all your are teammates are guilty! Nothing is more corrosive than a paranoid leader who sends the kind of disrespectful and demeaning message that accompanies a lie detector test to those with whom you work.

Glenn gives 3 takeaways on this latest development.


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0:00.0

It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner.

0:15.6

FBI Director Cash Patel has ordered polygraph tests on over two dozen staffers to uncover who has

0:21.8

been leaking his secrets to the press. Glenn has the story next on Justice Matters.

0:29.3

Here's what you've been missing on the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast. I don't know if you saw

0:34.9

this meltdown yesterday, but I, first of all, I know Chris always says, like, you know, reporters, you know, they have to have access. I'm like, access to what? Access to getting called an idiot now. That's basically, he answers every question. You're a stupid person. You're a dumb person. It's twice as big. Those reporters let that roll off their backs. The reporters are stronger than that. Oh, my God. It's twice as big, you dummy. Yeah, we have to... Here's what I'm going to do with the Iran War. I'm going to paint it blue, just like the reflecting part, which will no longer reflect. Reflecting is bad. It can cause cancer, just like the windmills, because the reflection goes weir, wee, and it kills the whales.

1:11.4

So I'm going to paint the Iran.

1:12.7

I'm painting it blue, but red for MAGA, but blue because we won.

1:17.5

Subscribe to the Stephanie Miller Happy Hour podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stephanie Miller.com, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

1:24.5

You know, you get your favorite podcasts.

1:34.8

Hey all.

1:35.9

Glenn Kirshner here.

1:42.0

So friends, did you ever work for a really lousy boss?

1:43.4

Me too. Is it any surprise that the FBI is apparently leaking like a

1:48.8

sieve with FBI employees exposing to reporters what Cash Patel has been doing? And Cash's approach to rebuilding trust and inspiring loyalty, lie detector tests for the

2:09.1

lot of you. Let's start with the new reporting. This from Carol Lenig and Ken Delanian of MS Now.

2:18.7

Headline, Cash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team, sources say.

2:27.5

And that article begins.

2:29.8

FBI director Cash Patel ordered the polygraphing lie detector tests of more than two dozen former

2:37.7

and current members of his security detail, as well as other staff, and has been described as being

2:44.9

in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

2:53.8

Patel walled himself off from some senior bureau leaders this week after multiple media

3:00.9

reports raised red flags about his leadership, according to three people familiar with his recent actions.

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