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=424 2010-03-09T15:40:00+01:00 AntiPolygraph.org has obtained a copy of an NSA leaflet titled, "Your Polygraph Examination: An Important Appointment to Keep." This leaflet, which has blanks for filling in the time, date, and place of an appointment, merits some discussion. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=392 2010-02-20T16:50:00+01:00 On Friday, 19 February 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the conclusion of its investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks. The DOJ maintains that Dr. Bruce Edwards Ivans, who in 2002 passed a polygraph test regarding the anthrax attacks, was the sole perpetrator. In an investigative summary (640 kb PDF), the DOJ characterizes Ivins' passing of the polygraph as part of an effort to "stay ahead of the investigation," alleging (at p. 84, fn. 51) that he used countermeasures to fool the polygraph... https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1265015145 2010-02-01T11:02:00+01:00 It's been a long time since I spoke of this. Maybe I figured that now since everything's in the past that one of these days I'd be out of its shadow. This sadly, is not the case. In 2007, I was an Electronic Warfare technician in service with the United States Navy. I'd been stationed on an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer for the previous five years, and was just about done with my hitch. I'd been weighing options for shore duty, and since EW's had been combined with Cryptologic Technician (Technical), all kinds of exciting three-letter-agency shore duty billets had opened up - I was qualified since all of us had to be read in to TS/SCI. I had a CI poly in 2005, and it went about as textbook as you can imagine. I stared straight ahead, did everything I was told, walked out as TS/SCI with a CI poly on my record. When the time came to fight for orders, I managed to secure a billet in Aurora, Colorado working for a satellite branch of the NSA at Buckley AFB. The one hitch was that they liked to have a polygraph within 6 months of the servicemember reporting. Everything was set up for me to take the CI poly the day before I was to start my transfer - I even got schooling in Pensacola en-route, with a nice re-enlistment bonus. I was very much looking forward to the day that I'd leave the grey waters and dreary sea rotation of Norfolk behind me, and continue serving my country in a choice location. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1264066297 2010-01-21T12:36:00+01:00 Polygraph operator and criminal justice professor Ronald Phillip Bae of Cottonwood, Alabama has been indicted by a grand jury on a felony charge of sexual abuse. Bae is a member of the Georgia Polygraph Association and also the Florida Polygraph Association, where his member profile indicates that he is additionally a member of the American Polygraph Association and the Alabama Polygraph Association. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1263280772 2010-01-16T22:27:00+01:00 AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke was interviewed by Michael Rosen for a BBC radio program that aired on 12 January 2010. An MP3 file of the broadcast is now available for download. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1263566053 2010-01-15T16:11:00+01:00 Did you know that the CIA's Polygraph Division has its own seal? https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1263498201 2010-01-15T16:10:00+01:00 "I had a job with a L.E. agency this week. I just had to pass my polygraph and physical and I was ready to go. This was the first polygraph test that I've ever taken and I was not nervous at all about passing it. I have nothing to hide so I knew that I would ace it. Was I wrong...." https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=386 2010-01-13T15:58:00+01:00 A recently filed federal lawsuit documents how a veteran intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was accused of espionage and summarily fired after failing a series of polygraph "tests" (a procedure roundly rejected by scientists as being without scientific basis). The following is an excerpt from the statement of complaint (160 kb PDF) filed on 7 January 2010 by attorney Mark S. Zaid in behalf of Lieutenant Colonel John Dullahan, United States Army (retired) against the DIA and others... https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=384 2010-01-05T12:25:00+01:00 Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio interviewed AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke on Wednesday, 30 December 2009. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1262509315 2010-01-03T10:13:00+01:00 ABC News reports that the suicide bomber who killed at least six CIA employees at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan "was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times in the past." If this is true, then it is very likely that the bomber passed a CIA polygraph test. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=373 2009-12-02T15:30:00+01:00 on Ostendorff reports for the Asheville Citizen-Times that North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chris Smith, who supervises the Bureau's polygraph unit, will not be criminally prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a suspect he had polygraphed. https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=367 2009-11-20T06:30:00+01:00 Jon Ostendorff reports for the Asheville Citizen-Times that the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations' senior polygraph examiner, Special Agent Chris Smith, who supervises all the Bureau's polygraphers, was arrested and charged with assault in August 2009. Smith is currently free on $200,000 bond. https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1256068356 2009-10-21T11:35:00+02:00 I've long been fascinated by the role of the lie detector in American pop culture, one aspect of which is commercial advertising. Today at 1 PM Eastern time, Burger King webcasted a publicity stunt that involved NASCAR driver Tony "Smoke" Stewart taking a lie detector test wherein he answered some 30 questions putatively submitted by members of the public in addition to five questions about his history of eating hamburgers in general and his affinity for Burger King hamburgers in particular. Burger King is among Stewart's paying sponsors. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I couldn't help but watch, and I'd like to share some observations. First, it was a familiar face administering the polygraph: John Grogan of Los Angeles. You know, the same John Grogan who in 2002 had his private investigator license, private patrol operator license, baton permit, and firearm permit revoked and was ordered to pay $21,800 for the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services's investigation and prosecution costs? During the webcast, the presenter asked Mr. Grogan how long he has been doing polygraphs. Grogan didn't give a precise answer, saying merely (if memory serves) that he has been doing them for "years and years." Later in the webcast, the presenter stated more than once that Grogan has been performing polygraph tests for more than two decades. It's worth noting, however, that Grogan's only polygraph training certificate on public record is one awarded to him by retired U.S. Secret Service Agent Joseph Paolella in 2004, a mere five years ago. (That certificate appears as an attachment to the complaint for damages that Grogan filed against Joseph Paolella and others in a 2008 lawsuit that has apparently been settled and/or withdrawn.) While the web spectacle was represented as a real polygraph examination, it's worth noting that three of the four channels on the polygraph instrument as shown during the webcast were flatlined -- exhibiting precisely the same characterstics that one would expect from a dead body... https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=339 2009-09-15T21:35:00+02:00 Polygraph operator Patrick T. Coffey of San Francisco has threatened AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke with a defamation lawsuit. In a letter (877 kb PDF) dated 4 September 2009 sent by U.S. mail and fax, Coffey's attorney, Carleton L. Briggs, demands "a full and complete retraction" of the 20 August 2009 blog post, "Is Patrick T. Coffey Fit to Be Screening Police Applicants?"