Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
In an article titled “Committee expands LAPD recruitment efforts,” MSNBC.com affiliate NBC4.TV reports on the LAPD’s polygraph woes. Excerpt: LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 – The City Council’s Public Safety Committee recommended today that the city fund expanded officer recruitment efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department. The panel unanimously forwarded to the full council Deputy …
In an article titled, “Airlines – Part of National Security” published in issue #55 of the biweekly e-zine, The Polygraph Chronicles, National Polygraph Association president Kenneth J. Whaley argues for mandatory polygraph screening of airport employees. Excerpt: September 11, 2001, firmly established that the airline industry is involved in national security. Not only the airlines, …
Senate Report 107-63 “authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2002 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account of the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes” includes a directive to the FBI, CIA, and DoD to report on polygraph …
In an article titled, “Feds Make First Arrest in Attacks,” John Solomon and Karen Gullo of the Associated Press report that an acquaintance of one of the hijackers (not necessarily the material witness who was arrested) had “failed” a polygraph “test.” Excerpt: Meanwhile, the FBI provided warnings Friday to two Southeast cities – Richmond, Va., …
In a correction to an earlier report, CNN.com reports that the FBI has cleared of suspicion a man originally thought to have piloted one of the four hijacked airliners based (at least in part) on a passed polygraph “test”: CORRECTION We would like to correct a report that appeared on CNN. Based on information from …
Detroit Free Press staff writers Shawn Windsor and Jim Schaefer report. Excerpt: An FBI agent tried during the weekend to convince Charles (Chuckie) O’Brien again to take a lie-detector test regarding the disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, according to a letter that O’Brien’s lawyer said came from the agent. William Bufalino II said …
In response to to AntiPolygraph.org’s Freedom of Information Act request dated 10 June 2001 for all Department of Defense Polygraph Institute (DoDPI) materials describing the General Question Technique (GQT), whether on paper, videotape, computer media, or in any other format, the Defense Security Service (DSS) claims that DoDPI has probably discarded any information about this …
Los Angeles radio station KFWB and the Associated Press report. Excerpt: (KFWB/AP) 8.30.01, 5:10p — Homicide investigators using body-sniffing dogs planned to search an oil field Friday for clues to the disappearance of the daughter of a former state senator. The area to be combed in Signal Hill is near the garage where a sport …
NBC4.TV reports. Excerpt: LOS ANGELES, August 30 – The husband of the missing daughter of former state Sen. Paul Carpenter failed to show up Thursday for a scheduled polygraph examination, a sheriff’s deputy said. Bruce Koklich of Lakewood was supposed to take the examination at 9 a.m at the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s Scientific …
Subsequent to his interview with Connie Chung of ABC News, Rep. Gary Condit of Ceres, CA also gave an interview to the editors of the Merced Sun-Star. During this interview, Rep. Condit again discussed his polygraph examination by retired FBI polygrapher Barry Colvert. The following is an excerpt from the interview transcript: Condit: …I did …