AntiPolygraph.org has previously reported and commented on U.S. government efforts to foist the pseudoscience of polygraphy on other countries and on local employees at U.S. diplomatic facilities. For example:
- In 2008, the U.S. government foisted polygraphy on the government of Iraq, which was under U.S. military occupation;
- In 2013, the U.S. embassy in Yemen compelled local employees to submit to polygraph screening;
- In 2013, Mexican security officials refused to submit to further polygraph screening by their American counterparts;
Now, for the first time, a victim of such efforts has publicly shared his story with AntiPolygraph.org. An officer in the Afghan Ministry of the Interior who specialized in anti-corruption efforts relates, among other things, how he and some 40 of his colleagues had their careers arbitrarily sidelined in 2018 when they were required to submit to polygraph screening conducted at the U.S. embassy in Kabul. His statement helps to document the ongoing harm caused by America’s stubborn reliance on this pseudoscience. See the Polygraph Statement of Sherzai Sulimany.