n an article titled “U.S. to hand airman over to Japan,” CNN.com reports that U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland has been polygraphed by Japanese authorities:
CNN has learned Japanese authorities performed a polygraph test on Woodland and they say he did not pass it. U.S. officials have objected to the use of a lie-detector test in the absence of legal counsel or of U.S. representation of any kind.
It is not clear whether the polygraph technique used by Japanese authorities was the pseudoscientific “Control Question Test” preferred by U.S. law enforcement agencies or the theoretically sounder Guilty Knowledge Test developed by Dr. David T. Lykken and used to a greater extent by Japanese police.