https://antipolygraph.org/YaBBImages/avatars/ap.gif https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse associated with the use of the polygraph (lie detector). https://antipolygraph.org/index.shtml https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=189 2008-06-16T35:00:00+02:00 Some two weeks after MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman broke the story of the Department of Defense's new hand-held lie detector, formally dubbed the "Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening Tool" (PCASS), Mike A. Glasch who writes for the weekly Reader, the official newspaper of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, picked up on the story in the 24 April 2008 issue. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1209802926 2008-05-04T12:00:00+02:00 Discussion of the use of the polygraph in the investigation of the murder of Nona Dirksmeyer of Russellville, Arkansas. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=187 2008-05-02T16:30:00+02:00 "[The use of a polygraph] is not remotely scientific and, when it creeps into the courtroom, can create great mischief." https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1209539000 2008-04-30T09:30:00+02:00 On Valentine's Day 1993, 13-year-old Crystallynn Girard was found dead in her bedroom, apparently strangled. Days after the death, a suspect, Dennis Donohue, passed a polygraph "test," was granted immunity, and provided grand jury testimony that helped indict the victim's innocent mother, Lynn DeJac, of the crime. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1209075340 2008-04-25T11:00:00+02:00 Like many here I just had a horrific experience with a polygraph while trying to gain employment at a police department. In this case I passed the test with no indications of deception, only to be told I was being kicked out because I was using countermeasures.... https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1208847456 2008-04-22T09:45:00+02:00 In another thread Skip Webb made some rather damning admissions. I think it will be worthwhile to review them. He has freely admitted that: (1) It is easy to beat the PCASS; and (2) It is reasonable to suppose that the people the PCASS is supposed to detect know how to beat it. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1208760748 2008-04-21T10:45:00+02:00 The American Polygraph Association has founded it's own religion, the Church of the Polygraph (COP), Adherents, called Cops, believe that the polygraph is divine and worship it as the one true God and creator of the universe. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1208529571 2008-04-18T18:15:00+02:00 Federal polygrapher and American Polygraph Association Past President Skip Webb accuses AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke of treason for revealing how the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment's new hand-held lie detector can be fooled. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=184 2008-04-14T08:35:00+02:00 AntiPolygraph.org's George Maschke addresses members of the U.S. armed forces who are being asked to rely on DoD's new hand-held lie detector, the "Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System" (PCASS). https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1206276068 2008-04-09T18:10:00+02:00 The U.S. Government's new hand-lie detector, the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System or PCASS, can be easily defeated through the use of simple countermeasures. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1206276068 2008-04-09T18:10:00+02:00 MSNBC has released a major investigative report on the Department of Defense's adoption of a hand-held lie detector to be used by U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The device is to be used to screen local nationals, who will be questioned through the use of interpreters. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1206276068 2008-03-23T10:00:00+01:00 A lawsuit filed in January 2008 alleges the existence of an illegal referral scheme whereby sex offender therapists and probation officers of the Community Supervision and Corrections Department of Tarrant County, Texas (which includes Fort Worth) directed sex offenders subject to mandatory polygraph screening to go to specific polygraph examiners, rather than allowing them to go to any appropriately credentialed polygraph examiner. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1206261662 2008-03-23T13:50:00+01:00 In July 1999, polygraph examiner Eric J. Holden of Texas, a past president of the American Polygraph Association and prominent advocate for the post-conviction polygraph screening of sex offenders, was accused of sexually harassing a female student at the Texas Department of Public Safety Polygraph School. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1205941453 2008-03-19T17:05:00+01:00 If you are a convicted sex offender on probation or deferred adjudication and are subject to mandatory polygraph screening in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, AntiPolygraph.org's George Maschke would be interested in communicating with you privately regarding polygraph practices in the Metroplex. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=179 2008-03-13T12:40:00+01:00 Charles O'Callaghan, a polygraph examiner and Nebraska State Patrol investigator, has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska by Matthew Livers, from whom investigators coerced a false confession after an allegedly failed polygraph examination conducted by O'Callaghan, who is also a member of the Nebraska Association of Polygraph Examiners. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1203681407 2008-02-22T14:35:00+01:00 On 18 January 2008, a Mr. Larry Sinclair of Duluth, Minnesota posted to YouTube a video statement in which he made sensational allegations against Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and challenged him to a polygraph showdown. Sinclair is to be polygraphed on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 by an as-yet-unnamed polygrapher in or near New York City. Political blog BigHeadDC reports that Sinclair, who stands to make $100,000 if he passes the polygraph, "is expected to hold a press conference in the coming days." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=176 2008-02-20T18:30:00+01:00 On 18 January 2008, a Mr. Larry Sinclair of Duluth, Minnesota posted to YouTube a video statement in which he made sensational allegations against Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and challenged him to a polygraph showdown....