Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Home affairs editor Alan Travis reports for the Guardian. Home Office plans to introduce compulsory lie detector tests to ensure that convicted paedophiles do not offend again are worrying cabinet members. The home secretary, David Blunkett, has admitted to his cabinet colleagues that the plans “are not without controversy” and is seeking legal clearance from …
Hartford Courant staff writer Tracy Gordon Fox reports. Excerpt: The lawsuit Adrienne LaMorte brought against the Connecticut State Police over her removal from the department’s polygraph unit ended in June when she received a fat check for $216,000. But the ripples the case generated within state law enforcement circles are still being felt, with top …
The Associated Press reports in this article published on AZCentral.com: MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s governmental National Human Rights Commission recommended Sunday that police, government agencies and investigators not use tests involving polygraphs, also known as lie detector tests. The commission said the tests “violate human rights” because they represent an invasion of privacy and their …
In an article titled, “Entering unknown territory,” Los Alamos Monitor assistant editor Roger Snodgrass confirms that some employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been ordered to undergo polygraph “testing” as the Deparment of Energy investigates the disappearance of two removable data storage devices. Excerpt: According to sources, the investigation of lost computer recording data …
An Associated Press report published by ABCNews.com under the title, “UC Halts Los Alamos’ Classified Work” mentions the possibility of a polygraph hunt for potential security violators as Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) attempts to locate two data storage devices containing classified information. Excerpt: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. July 16, 2004 — All classified work at Los …
The Iraqi fabricator who provided false information that Iraq possessed mobile biological warfare laboratories and was believed in part because he had passed a polygraph “test” has been publicly identified as Major Mohammad Harith. Secretary of State Colin Powell used Harith’s bogus information in an attempt to justify the planned invasion of Iraq in a …
New York Newsday staff writer Brian Boyd reports: Assemb. Adam Clayton Powell IV Wednesday sought to knock down the latest rape allegation against him by saying results from a lie-detector test he took prove he did not force the woman to have sex. Powell, a Harlem Democrat, contends he and the woman, whose name has …
KOBTV.com has published the following brief Associated Press report: (Santa Fe-AP) — The state Supreme Court has ruled that polygraph test results can continue to be used as evidence in New Mexico courts. New Mexico has allowed the use of lie detector results in courts for decades. However, the Supreme Court has been considering whether …
Nicole Weisensee Egan reports for the Philadelphia Daily News in an article titled, “Discipline chief probed for lying, sources say.” Excerpt: The Pennsylvania State Police’s disciplinary officer, who has fired troopers for lying in investigations, is himself under internal investigation for lying during an arbitration, sources said. Capt. Robert “Barry” Titler, 49, who has been …
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer John Shiffman reports in an article titled, “A.C. firm must pay fired trio $4 million”: No one ever solved the mystery of who stole $4,000 from a desk at the telemarketing offices of a Jersey Shore time-share, or even whether any crime was really committed at all. But this much is …