Polygraph

DACA Research Update

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In the 5 June 2008 issue (10 mb PDF) of the Fort Jackson Leader, Mike Glasch reports on current research at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment:

DACA researchers developing high-tech ways to detect deception

Mike A. Glasch
Leader Staff

Tubes strapped across the chest, sensors clipped to the fingertips and an inflated blood pressure cuff attached to the upper arm; all the while needles scratch on a roll of paper as an examiner grills his or her subject with a series of questions.

The needles and paper of the polygraph have been replaced by computer monitors, and soon the polygraph itself may be replaced.

Researchers at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment at Fort Jackson are studying new devices to replace the polygraph in a variety of situations — Soldiers in Baghdad investigating an IED explosion, Homeland Security officials screening potential terrorists at airports or FBI agents searching for a kidnap victim.

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Massachusetts Police Officers May Be Forced to Take Lie Detector Tests

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Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that law enforcement officers in the state can be compelled to submit to lie detector “testing” in the course of internal investigations. John R. Ellement reports for the Boston Globe: BOSTON — Saying public confidence in law enforcement must be protected, the state’s high court today ruled that police … Read more

The Port-A-Poly Goes to Afghanistan: Fort Jackson Leader Reports Fielding of New Hand-Held Lie Detector

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Some two weeks after MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman broke the story of the Department of Defense’s new hand-held lie detector, formally dubbed the “Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System” (PCASS), Mike A. Glasch who writes for the weekly Reader, the official newspaper of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, picked up on the story in the 24 … Read more

Dick Cavett on Lie Detectors

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Writing on his New York Times blog, former television show host Dick Cavett recounts the story of the time F. Lee Bailey appeared on his show to demonstrate how the polygraph works. Only it didn’t. Cavett tantalizingly reveals that a follow-up blog entry will be titled, “The Secret of How I Beat the Infernal Machine.”

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff Derides Polygraphy as “Junk Science”

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Kat Richardson reports for The Dartmouth on Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s remarks at his recent William H. Timber ‘37 Lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Legal Studies faculty and the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. Excerpt: Science and the law are “uncomfortable” but inevitable “bedfellows,” Jed Rakoff, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of … Read more

Warning to U.S. Troops on Hand-Held Lie Detector

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AntiPolygraph.org’s George Maschke addresses members of the U.S. armed forces who are being asked to rely on DoD’s new hand-held lie detector, the “Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System” (PCASS): For discussion of the PCASS, see Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System: U.S. Deploys Hand-Held Lie Detector and How to Beat the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System … Read more

U.S. Military to Deploy Hand-Held Lie Detectors

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Bill Dedman of MSNBC shines much-needed light on the U.S. military’s new “Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System” or PCASS. His on-line report, “New Anti-Terror Weapon: Hand-Held Lie Detector” is a must-read and includes documentation obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and a video segment with interviews and a demonstration conducted at the Defense Academy … Read more