Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn comments on polygraphy. Excerpt: The lie detector is a powerful tool. So powerful, in fact, that it doesn’t even have to exist to be effective. This story of the telephone scam allegedly run by two Cook County Jail inmates underscores how the reputation of this technology is its strongest asset. …
Washington Post staff writers Allan Lengel and Petula Dvorak report. Excerpt: Rep. Gary A. Condit’s attorney announced yesterday that the congressman had passed a privately administered lie detector test that asked critical questions about the disappearance of Chandra Levy, but police officials immediately questioned its validity. The announcement that Condit had passed a polygraph — …
CBS News reports that Abbe D. Lowell, Rep. Gary D. Condit’s attorney, has announced that the congressman has taken and passed a polygraph “test” in connection with the whereabouts of Chandra Levy. Excerpt: (CBS) Gary Condit’s lawyer says the embattled congressman has taken and passed a lie detector test – one administered independently, and not …
In an article replete with misinformation, Richard Sisk of the New York Daily News Washington bureau reports on polygraphy. Excerpt: WASHINGTON If they do it right, the cops would be about 96% sure whether Rep. Gary Condit was involved in Chandra Levy’s disappearance after hooking him up to a lie detector, polygraph experts said yesterday. …
Howard Fienberg, a research analyst with the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC writes for The Providence Journal. Excerpt: The parents of missing Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy do not believe that U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., has revealed all he knows of her whereabouts. Although police …
ABCNews.com reports in a feature length article. Excerpt: W A S H I N G T O N, July 11 — If investigators want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie detector test, his lawyer says they first will have to haggle over the sort of questions that can be asked. The FBI wants to …
Washington Post staff writers Arthur Santana and Bill Miller report. Excerpt: Law enforcement authorities have asked Rep. Gary A. Condit to submit to a polygraph examination and accepted an offer from Condit’s attorney to search his apartment, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said yesterday. Investigators also plan to interview members of Condit’s staff and …
North County Times staff writer Scott Marshall reports in a lengthy article on the use of polygraph “testing” to supervise sex offenders on probation in San Diego County, California. Be sure to see the full article. Excerpt: VISTA —- San Diego County probation officers are using lie-detector tests to help them supervise the roughly 600 …
MSNBC.com reports on the Levy family’s polygraph challenge to Rep. Gary Condit. Excerpt: July 9 — Rep. Gary Condit will not take a lie detector test as Chandra Levy’s parents are requesting, his lawyer told NBC News on Monday. Abbe Lowell emphasized that investigators are satisfied with the congressman’s responses in three interviews and he …
Tom Squitieri and Kevin Johnson report for USA Today. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – The parents of a missing government intern want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie-detector test now that the California congressman has reversed himself and admitted he had an affair with their daughter. Billy Martin, a lawyer for the parents of Chandra Levy, …