FBI Director Kash Patel is making bureau staff take polygraph tests to root out anyone who’s been talking trash about him, according to a report. Patel has ramped up the FBI’s use of the lie-detector tests—often deemed too unreliable to use as evidence in criminal courts—in order to keep tabs on his own people and stamp out leaks.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Saturday denied rumors of his imminent departure from the bureau over his reported dissatisfaction with the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. “The conspiracy theories just aren’t true,