Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo,

The clash between the deputy FBI director and the attorney general has exposed tensions in Trump’s inner sanctum.

Some senior officials who took the test were asked whether they said anything negative about Director Kash Patel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.

Since Kash Patel became FBI director, the bureau has expanded its use of polygraph tests to root out internal critics and leakers, with some employees questioned about speaking negatively of Patel. Former officials call the move politically charged,

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.