It has recently been revealed that the CIA has been aggressively utilizing lie detector tests to keep tabs on its employees — including Mary McCarthy, who allegedly “leaked” the CIA “secret prison” story which ultimately won the Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize.

In light of this development, the Editorial Board at The Satirical Political Report humbly suggests that a new lie detector test be developed, a no-holds barred interrogation that can really do some good, to be administered to all CIA employees, and to be made completely public on the CIA’s website. Here are the Top Ten suggested questions:

10. On WMD, were Bush and Cheney more full of shit than a Bill O’Reilly “no spin zone?”

9. Did anyone in the Veep’s office threaten to take your first-born male child unless you toed the Bushinista line on yellowcake?

8. Is George Tenet really as stupid as he looks? (And was he preoccupied with getting quasi-look-alike George Clooney to play him in the movies?)

7. Was Condoleeza actually smoking mushrooms right before her “mushroom cloud” comment?

6. Did the CIA reach a consensus that “Curveball” was really a “screwball?”

5. Is it true that the fake Rome document that supposedly showed an Iraq-Niger uranium deal was sealed with marinara sauce, and actually read: “Saddama is a-tryin’ to buya’ the yellowcake-a from-a Africa.”

4. Did Alberto Gonzalez try to justify the “cherry-picking” of intelligence by citing the precedent of George Washington chopping down the entire cherry tree?

3. Do you spies have an inside joke with the punchline: “Now you know why they call it the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?”

2. Was the Administration claim that Joe Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife based on Karl Rove’s strategy: “We may have started an unnecessary and immoral war, but at least we’re not pussywhipped.”

1. Did Rumsfeld warn you guys: “We go with the ‘make-believe’ we want, not with the intelligence we actually have.”

From the “Ain’t That Ironic Department”: In a related story, although she denies being the source of the leak, the CIA has “renditioned” Mary McCarthy to one of the secret prisons that she allegedly revealed, and which the CIA still denies even exists.

BUSH’S APPROVAL RATINGS EVEN WORSE THAN THEY SEEM: While Bush’s U.S. approval ratings have now hit an all-time low of 32% — in the rest of the world, where they use the more logical Celsius, his approval level is actually at Zero.

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