Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Peter Baker reports for the Washington Post. Excerpt: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – It didn’t seem all that strange to his son when Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood began spending part of his retirement in Afghanistan working on charity projects. But he was curious enough after one of those trips to ask his father if he had met Osama …
Associated Press writer Jesse J. Holland reports in an article published in the Washington Post under the title, “Senators Call for FBI Oversight Legislation.” Excerpt: WASHINGTON – Two senators called for sweeping changes in the FBI Thursday, including mandated lie detector tests of people working with sensitive information, letting Justice Department investigators independently look at …
In an article titled “Officials look for link in anthrax samples from labs,” the Associated Press reports that the FBI has used polygraph interrogations in its investigation of last year’s anthrax letter attacks. Excerpt: The FBI believes the anthrax letters were the work of a single scientist, and some of the scientists fit aspects of …
Jeannette Andrade reports for the Manila Times regarding the use of polygraphy in the Philippines in a high-profile terrorism case. Excerpt: The man caught on video beheading Abu Sayyaf captives will go through a lie-detector test and psychiatric evaluation to determine if he qualifies as a state witness to pin down other executioners. Jun Peñaflor, …
Nichole Monroe Bell reports for the Charlottesville Observer regarding a capital murder trial in South Carolina. Excerpt: YORK – The judge handling the capital murder retrial of Sterling Spann is considering a motion to admit the results of two lie-detector tests that defense attorneys argue show their client is innocent. According to documents filed in …
Annette Phillips reports for the Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada regarding a polygraph dragnet at City Hall. Excerpt: Local News – Councillor Don Rogers says he will not take a lie-detector test to help police trace the leak of a confidential council document. “I find the idea of being subjected to a lie-detector test …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: AFTER AN inconclusive result on his first lie-detector test of the day, City Councilman Frank DiCicco late last night passed a second test, giving weight to his allegation that colleague Rick Mariano made an ethnic slur against Irish-Americans. Mariano, refusing to submit to a polygraph himself, …
WPVI.com provides an Associated Press report on Philadelphia Councilman Frank DiCicco’s polygraph examination as well as a RealPlayer video file with reporter Dann Cuellar’s news story. Excerpt from the Associated Press report: PHILADELPHIA – February 19, 2002 – Maybe Frank DiCicco should start raising campaign funds on ABC’s “The Chair.” DiCicco, a Philadelphia councilman, seems …
Tony Romeo reports for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full: Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: DID CITY Councilman Rick Mariano refer to residents of Irish descent in the 31st Ward in Kensington as “trailer-park Irish trash?” Councilman Frank DiCicco is so sure of it, he’s taking a Daily News-sponsored lie-detector test today to prove it. DiCicco says Mariano made the remark …