Michael Doyle of the Bee Washington Bureau reports in this article published in the Modesto Bee. Excerpt:
WASHINGTON — FBI experts on Tuesday began examining Rep. Gary Condit’s private lie-detector test, while police searched woods in the Chandra Levy disappearance, and Condit went about his business in the camera’s glare.
Although skeptical of the test sprung on them by Condit’s attorney, Washington police officials say the FBI’s laboratory will give it a fair reading. Police gave the results to the lab on Tuesday after receiving them Monday.
“It has to be analyzed,” Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “It really takes an expert in the field to make heads or tails of it, and it would be pitiful for me to try.”
Condit’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, has said that the privately administered polygraph shows that Condit was telling the truth when he said that he did not harm Levy, did not have anything to do with her disappearance and does not know where she can be found.
Lowell further asserted that the polygraph examiner concluded that Condit showed “a probability of deception of less than one-hundredth of 1 percent to the only questions that matter.”
Charts from the test as well as a written report by private consultant Barry Colvert, a former FBI interrogator, were given to police. As they have since learning about the test last Friday, police officials reiterated Tuesday their continued interest in conducting their own test.
“It would be our preference, still, to have the congressman sit down and answer questions for us,” Gainer said.
D.C. Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer’s remark that “it would be pitiful for [him] to try” to make heads or tails of Rep. Gary Condit’s polygraph chart applies equally to the FBI laboratory’s polygraph chart gazers, too. Polygraph chart reading is no science. It is to be recalled that FBI polygraphers turned Wen Ho Lee’s strong passing scores on a Department of Energy polygraph interrogation to “inconclusive, if not deceptive.”