Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets, in an article titled “How the Israelis Are Helping U.S. Fight Terror War,” asserts that Israeli counterintelligence has offered polygraph support to the FBI. Excerpt: …Shin Bet, Israel’s counterintelligence organization, has offered to provide the FBI with operatives who can speak Arabic and Farsi, and can administer and …
In an article entitled “Panel seeks to speed LAPD hiring,” David Zahniser of the Torrance, Calif. Daily Breeze reports on the 24 September 2001 meeting of the Los Angeles City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Excerpt: The committee … recommended hiring a private firm to handle the backlog of more than 500 job applicants waiting to …
In an article titled “Committee expands LAPD recruitment efforts,” MSNBC.com affiliate NBC4.TV reports on the LAPD’s polygraph woes. Excerpt: LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 – The City Council’s Public Safety Committee recommended today that the city fund expanded officer recruitment efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department. The panel unanimously forwarded to the full council Deputy …
In an article titled, “Airlines – Part of National Security” published in issue #55 of the biweekly e-zine, The Polygraph Chronicles, National Polygraph Association president Kenneth J. Whaley argues for mandatory polygraph screening of airport employees. Excerpt: September 11, 2001, firmly established that the airline industry is involved in national security. Not only the airlines, …
Since its launch on 18 September 2000, AntiPolygraph.org has grown to become the Internet’s premier source of polygraph information and the leading public forum for discussion and debate of polygraph issues. AntiPolygraph.org is grateful to all those who have helped to make our first year a successful one, and anticipates more progress in the coming …
Senate Report 107-63 “authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2002 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account of the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes” includes a directive to the FBI, CIA, and DoD to report on polygraph …
In an article titled, “Feds Make First Arrest in Attacks,” John Solomon and Karen Gullo of the Associated Press report that an acquaintance of one of the hijackers (not necessarily the material witness who was arrested) had “failed” a polygraph “test.” Excerpt: Meanwhile, the FBI provided warnings Friday to two Southeast cities – Richmond, Va., …
In a correction to an earlier report, CNN.com reports that the FBI has cleared of suspicion a man originally thought to have piloted one of the four hijacked airliners based (at least in part) on a passed polygraph “test”: CORRECTION We would like to correct a report that appeared on CNN. Based on information from …
Moira Gunn writes on “Computer Voice Stress Analysis” (CVSA) for SiliconValley.com. Excerpt: Here’s what I call scary technology. Ever hear of a `voice stress analyzer`? It’s almost exactly what it says it is. It’s a technology that purports to measure a selection of inaudible characteristics of the human voice. Of course, it’s the `analyzer` part …
Detroit Free Press staff writers Shawn Windsor and Jim Schaefer report. Excerpt: An FBI agent tried during the weekend to convince Charles (Chuckie) O’Brien again to take a lie-detector test regarding the disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, according to a letter that O’Brien’s lawyer said came from the agent. William Bufalino II said …