Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Michael Doyle of the Bee Washington Bureau reports in this article published in the Modesto Bee. Excerpt: WASHINGTON — FBI experts on Tuesday began examining Rep. Gary Condit’s private lie-detector test, while police searched woods in the Chandra Levy disappearance, and Condit went about his business in the camera’s glare. Although skeptical of the test …
New York Press writer Alexander Cockburn comments on polygraphy in his column, “Wild Justice” (Vol. 14, No. 29). Excerpt: I’m no fan of the man from Modesto. But it was troubling to see Gary Condit being hounded by the cable news shows into taking a polygraph test and then trashed for using his own polygrapher, …
Pete Williams of NBC News reports. Excerpt: July 17 — Even though Rep. Gary Condit’s lawyers have now turned over the results of their own lie detector test, Washington, D.C. police still want the congressman to take one of theirs. All of this has brought the science of lie detectors front and center. How do …
FrontPageMagazine.com columnist Lowell Ponte discusses polygraphy in the context of Rep. Gary Condit’s recent polygraph “test.” Excerpt: A LIE-DETECTOR HAS VINDICATED GARY CONDIT. That was the message the California Congressman’s politically-cunning lawyer Abbe Lowell released to the press late last Friday. Within minutes, Leftist pundits were on television declaring that the Modesto Democrat had reclaimed …
The Wichita Falls, Texas Times Record News addresses polygraphy in this editorial. Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Gary Condit may or may not have had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy. But, we won’t get any closer to the truth of the matter if we’re going to depend on lie detectors to get us …
New York Daily News staff writer Robert Ingrassia reports. Excerpt: If Rep. Gary Condit knows more than he’s saying about the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy, he’s got reason to fear a full-fledged lie detector test. I should know. I underwent a polygraph exam yesterday — and got caught in a lie. In the process, …
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll comments on polygraphy. Excerpt: PERHAPS BY THE time this column appears, Rep. Gary Condit will have taken his lie-detector test. Lovers of justice will be able to rest easy, comfortable in the knowledge that we have learned not a thing more than we knew before. Friends, here we have …
So says Modesto Bee staff writer John Gorenfeld in an article thus titled. Clearly, Gorenfeld has not yet discovered “the lie behind the lie detector” (and the polygraphers with whom he spoke didn’t clue him in). Excerpt: Just how much does Rep. Gary Condit know about the disappearance of Chandra Levy, the Modesto woman last …
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn comments on polygraphy. Excerpt: The lie detector is a powerful tool. So powerful, in fact, that it doesn’t even have to exist to be effective. This story of the telephone scam allegedly run by two Cook County Jail inmates underscores how the reputation of this technology is its strongest asset. …
Washington Post staff writers Allan Lengel and Petula Dvorak report. Excerpt: Rep. Gary A. Condit’s attorney announced yesterday that the congressman had passed a privately administered lie detector test that asked critical questions about the disappearance of Chandra Levy, but police officials immediately questioned its validity. The announcement that Condit had passed a polygraph — …