Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
In “Why I Refuse Polygraphs,” blogger Mike Haubrich relates the entertaining story of his experience with the polygraph while working as a delivery man for Domino’s Pizza in the early 1980s. Haubrich became a criminal suspect when a customer at a college dormitory reported having lost her wallet about the time Haubrich delivered a pizza.
CNN reports that the lone gunman reportedly taken alive in the recent attack on Mumbai, India has been subjected to a polygraph test: [Mumbai Joint Police Commissioner of Crime Rakesh] Maria identified the suspect as Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, from Faridkot village in the Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. He is the son of …
In a case that calls to mind Grogan v. Paolella et al. in the US, a polygrapher in the UK has sued a fellow polygrapher for defamation. The Independent’s Jerome Taylor reports: Lie detectors at war (but who’s telling the truth?) It’s not just Jeremy Kyle and Trisha Goddard who are rivals: the polygraph experts …
In an article titled, “Iraq Turns to Lie Detectors to Outsmart Al-Qaeda,” Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the graduation of the first class of U.S. Government-trained Iraqi polygraph operators. But to outsmart Al-Qaeda, doesn’t one need to be smarter than Al-Qaeda? As AntiPolygraph.org has documented, Al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents — unlike the U.S. and …
Speaking in unusually blunt terms for a senior law enforcement official, El Paso, Texas chief of police Greg Allen has decried the polygraph as a “piece of junk,” while El Paso Municipal Police Officers Association president Bobby Holguin has pronounced it “garbage.” Adriana M. Chávez reports for the El Paso Times: EL PASO — The …
BBC News reports: Sex offenders to face lie tests Sex offenders in some parts of England and Wales could be made to take compulsory lie detector tests to see if they are still a danger to the public. The Ministry of Justice said a pilot scheme would test the use of polygraphs for offenders living …
Jennifer McMenamin reports for the Baltimore Sun on Baltimore County associate judge Lawrence Robert Daniels‘s decision to take polygraph results into account when considering sentencing of a convicted felon: Lie detector may aid inmate Baltimore Co. judge gives convict chance to prove he didn’t try to kill two women By Jennifer McMenamin August 28, 2008 …
In “Paranoia in the Pentagon,” security consultant and 25-year FBI veteran Jim Dooley lampoons the Defense Intelligence Agency’s decision to greatly expand its polygraph screening program: The Pentagon, speaking as a single scary voice, says that it needs more polygraph studios. They need them to catch the spies. What spies? The spies it just knows …
Associated Press writer Pamela Hess reports on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s scheme to greatly expand polygraph screening of its personnel. It should be noted that Ana Belen Montes, the most notorious spy ever to infiltrate the DIA, was neither detected nor deterred by polygraph screening: Pentagon’s intelligence arm steps up lie detecting By PAMELA HESS …
CBS News 4 of Miami reports that according to a filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuting Guillermo Zarabozo for murder in the “Joe Cool” case, polygrapher Tom Mote, a former Metro-Dade detective and member of the Florida Polygraph Association, attempted to conceal unfavorable polygraph results. Zarabozo’s attorneys are seeking to have the results of …