The Wichita Falls, Texas Times Record News addresses polygraphy in this editorial. Excerpt:
U.S. Rep. Gary Condit may or may not have had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy.
But, we won’t get any closer to the truth of the matter if we’re going to depend on lie detectors to get us there.
In fact, no truth at all was served last week when Condit, who is under intense pressure to admit he knows something — anything — about the whereabouts of the missing intern, submitted himself to a lie detector test.
Since he hired his own lie-detecting outfit and paid for the test himself, law-enforcement officials are discounting the test’s outcome as not credible.
But the truth of the matter is that no lie-detector test is credible, regardless of who administers it.
That’s been either forgotten in the national frenzy over Condit’s affairs and Levy’s whereabouts or the cops and major news reporters never knew it in the first place.