Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Jonathan Fernandez reports for Sun.Star. Excerpt: MANILA — After failing the first test last week, whistle-blower Angelo Manaway, popularly known as Ador, had passed the second polygraph test amid allegations that a top official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had helped him. AFP intelligence service chief Col. Victor Corpus on Friday said …
Today’s Washington Post editorial, “Mr. Hanssen’s Plea” carries with it an implicit endorsement of polygraph screening. Excerpt (emphasis added): Fixing…vulnerabilities [in FBI security procedures] is the task ahead. No system can ensure perfect security. There will be smart and unscrupulous would-be spies at an organization the size of the bureau who find cracks to slip …
n an article titled “U.S. to hand airman over to Japan,” CNN.com reports that U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland has been polygraphed by Japanese authorities: CNN has learned Japanese authorities performed a polygraph test on Woodland and they say he did not pass it. U.S. officials have objected to the use of a …
In an article titled “Plea Bargain is Planned in FBI Spy Case,” Washington Post staff writers Brooke A. Masters and Dan Eggen report that Robert P. Hanssen will plead guilty to espionage charges. Excerpt: The government has dropped its demand for the death penalty and Hanssen, 57, has agreed to sit for extensive debriefings and …
The polygraph interrogation of public employees in General Santos, Philippines, reported by the Sun.Star website on 29 June 2001 is underway, Sun.Star reports in a new article titled “NBI Polygraph experts test tax collectors.” Excerpt: GENERAL SANTOS — Polygraph experts from the National Bureau Investigation have completed the polygraph tests to city hall employees in …
Jerome Aning, Armand N. Nocum, and Cathy C. Yamsuan report for the Philippine Inquirer News Service. Excerpt: “ADOR,” a former civilian agent of the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, last night demanded to take an “independent” polygraph test witnessed by representatives of the press, fearing that he failed one administered earlier yesterday at the …
Cathy Cañares and Christian V. Esguerra report for the Philippine Inquirer News Service. Excerpt: A FORMER civilian agent, who accused Panfilo “Ping” Lacson of masterminding a destabilization plot against the Macapagal administration, last night challenged the senator-elect and his protegés to undergo a lie detector test to determine who was telling the truth. The agent, …
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Pia Sarkar reports. Excerpt: A lawyer for the owner of three pit bulls that mauled 10-year-old Shawn Jones said yesterday that a lie detector test given to his client proved the dogs were not attack-trained. Contra Costa County Deputy Public Defender Michael Friedman said 28-year- old Benjamin Moore of Richmond …
In a Reuters article about the status of women in the CIA, Tabassum Zakaria touches upon CIA polygraph policy, including alleged bias against women, and notes that a woman heads the CIA polygraph unit. Excerpt: Lawyers who handle lawsuits by female spies say while steps have been taken toward equality, there is still some distance …
Associated Press writer Karen A. Davis reports. Excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The attorney for a man whose three dogs mauled a 10-year-old Richmond boy last month said a lie detector test backs his client’s statement that the dogs were raised only as pets and were not trained to fight or attack. Public Defender Michael …