Why is the Trump admin talking about polygraphs to find the unnamed op-ed author, but claim they're unreliable when Ford takes one?

Why is the Trump admin talking about polygraphs to find the unnamed op-ed author, but claim they're unreliable when Ford takes one?

Because they know that DNC paid for that fake test that probably never even took place.

Ford has a history of psychological issues/disorders. In such a condition,
truth is questionable. That is not the case for a top official of the White House who is supposed to be honorable.

Why not let two of them take one together?

Because the subject matter is 40 years old and anyone can 'pass a lie detector' when being questioned about events that far removed from our minds. Anything we tell ourselves about what we don't actually remember can be honestly held as 'true.' We can't 'lie' about what we don't have a firm grasp on ourselves. That is why we have developed more civilized methods of public discourse and law than mob rule tactics and 'Me Too' lynchings.

It's unproductive to take time trying to figure out hypocrites. Just avoid them.

It fits their needs.

They talk from both sides of the stick.

She would know if she's a sociopath. Why don't they hold a deposition? It's going to be a circus.

For judicial purposes they are inadmissible

for possibly finding out information they are a shot in the dark