Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Newsday staff writer John Riley reports on post 9/11 civil rights abuses stemming from the material witness law in this well-researched investigative article, which is the fourth in a series. Among other things, he documents the case of Abdallah Higazy, from whom an FBI polygrapher extracted a false confession. Excerpt: Higazy, an Egyptian diplomat’s child …
Zohar Blumenkranz reports for Ha’aretz. Excerpt: The Justice Ministry has prohibited El Al from subjecting its employees to polygraph tests aimed at discovering who in the company has been leaking information to the media. The ministry directive is based on a ruling by the attorney general opposing the use of these kinds of tests in …
This short article from the website of KRQE News in Albuquerque, New Mexico is cited here in full: Sandia National Laboratories is looking into allegations of improper questioning of one of its employees by a U.S. Energy Department polygraph examiner. The unidentified employee alleges the examiner asked inappropriate medical questions during a lie detector test. …
The Singapore Straits Times follows up on the polygraph “testing” of soccer players. Excerpt: WERE any of your players summoned by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau for lie-detector tests? If so, do you know what the outcome was? Would you like to know the names of those who flunked the test before you sign up …
The Singapore Straits Times reports on the polygraph “testing” of soccer players. Excerpt: Club officials say they were ‘unofficially’ told of players who failed the test – they now have to decide what to do about it SOME S-League football players have failed the lie-detector tests introduced last year. But because the polygraph tests are …
Dan Vergano reports for USA Today. Excerpt: A long-time law enforcement favorite, the lie detector, now finds itself sweating the hot lights of scientific inquiry. Crime dramas have long depicted the polygraph’s tangle of wires and wiggling chart lines uncovering lies during a hard-boiled criminal interrogation. As suspects are questioned, the device checks for sweaty …
Tangeni Amupadhi reports for The Namibian. Excerpt: THE Roads Authority has stopped trying to catch out liars among people it wants to hire or promote. The Authority abandoned using lie detector tests after unhappy workers seeking promotion complained to The Namibian. While the Roads Authority has stopped using lie detectors, the man hired to conduct …
Boston Globe correspondent Dan Ephron reports on the case of Dr. Marcus Klingberg in an article titled, “Israel details damaging espionage case.” Excerpt: JERUSALEM – The first reports of his arrest surfaced in 1991. By that time, Marcus Klingberg, one of Israel’s leading scientists, already had been languishing in jail for eight years. Even then, …
David Derbyshire and Roger Highfield report for the Daily Telegraph Excerpt: A scientist yesterday questioned a proposal to use lie-detector tests on convicted paedophiles to see if they would reoffend. Initial trials by two American polygraph examiners in the West Midlands, Northumberland and Surrey found that a third of those taking the tests lied when …
Alex McAllister reports for the Jacksonville, North Carolina Daily News in an article titled, “Sheriff faces his challengers.” Excerpt: Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown on Wednesday defended his use of the polygraph tests on rape victims when investigating cases of sexual assault. Brown addressed the issue during a forum for candidates running for sheriff hosted …