Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
The following report from IsraelNationalNews.com is cited here in full. It makes reference to the compulsory polygraph “testing” of Israeli officers in an attempt to track the source of a media leak about a military disagreement with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: (IsraelNN.com) MK (Yahad) Avshalom Vilan, who served in an elite IDF unit, expressed sharp …
In a press release by Rovner & Associates, Dr. Louis Rovner makes some dubious claims regarding polygraphy: WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ — “Almost no human being can beat a polygraph test,” says Dr. Louis Rovner, a noted psychologist and polygraph expert in Woodland Hills, California. In fact, lie detection technology has become so …
In a report titled, “TSA probe of whistleblowers criticized,” Star-Ledger staff writer Ron Marisco reports that Transportation Security Administration employees have been threatened with possible lie detector “tests” in an attempt to identify and punish a whistleblower. Excerpt: New Jersey’s senior U.S. senator and two congressmen yesterday rebuked federal officials for trying to ferret out …
Zvi Zrahiya reports for Ha’aretz. This short article is cited here in full: The Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee on Wednesday approved a bill preventing employers from requesting or demanding that a job candidate undergo a lie detector test. The bill, submitted by MK Yehiel Hazan (Likud), sets special circumstances under which an employer would …
SWNEBR.net reports. Excerpt: KEARNEY, NE–In Kearney, Nebraska today Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson announced that the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) will receive one million federal research dollars to study two important issues. The first project is to improve the reliability of polygraph technology in an effort to make it more useful in law enforcement …
Jamie Satterfield reports for the Knoxville, Tennessee News-Sentinel: If a polygraph test can help land a person in jail, a Knoxville lawyer argues, why can it not be used to free the accused? Knoxville attorney Gregory P. Isaacs wants to use the results of a polygraph examination to try to prove to a jury that …
Eric Lichtblau reports for the New York Times: WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 – Justice Department investigators have sought to have senior federal prosecutors take polygraph examinations in an effort to determine who leaked the name of a confidential informant in a Detroit terrorism case that has become a major embarrassment for the department, officials said Friday. …
The Sydney Morning Herald has published the following Australian Associated Press story: Prime Minister John Howard turned down a lie detector test to determine if he was telling the truth over the children overboard affair. But the man who claims he told Mr Howard there were doubts about allegations of refugees throwing children overboard from …
Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Facing the prospect of a federal corruption indictment, former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell took the offensive Friday with the announcement he had passed a polygraph examination. The examination, which cost Campbell $600, was administered Friday by a former director of the FBI’s polygraph unit who is now a …
Syndicated columnist Steve Chapman comments in an article published by the Prescott, Arizona Daily Courier: In May 1978, police arrested four Chicago-area men on charges of murdering a suburban man and raping and murdering his fiancée. All of the suspects said they were innocent, but no real doubt existed about their guilt: Three of them, …