Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
ABCNews.com reports in a feature length article. Excerpt: W A S H I N G T O N, July 11 — If investigators want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie detector test, his lawyer says they first will have to haggle over the sort of questions that can be asked. The FBI wants to …
Washington Post staff writers Arthur Santana and Bill Miller report. Excerpt: Law enforcement authorities have asked Rep. Gary A. Condit to submit to a polygraph examination and accepted an offer from Condit’s attorney to search his apartment, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said yesterday. Investigators also plan to interview members of Condit’s staff and …
North County Times staff writer Scott Marshall reports in a lengthy article on the use of polygraph “testing” to supervise sex offenders on probation in San Diego County, California. Be sure to see the full article. Excerpt: VISTA —- San Diego County probation officers are using lie-detector tests to help them supervise the roughly 600 …
MSNBC.com reports on the Levy family’s polygraph challenge to Rep. Gary Condit. Excerpt: July 9 — Rep. Gary Condit will not take a lie detector test as Chandra Levy’s parents are requesting, his lawyer told NBC News on Monday. Abbe Lowell emphasized that investigators are satisfied with the congressman’s responses in three interviews and he …
Tom Squitieri and Kevin Johnson report for USA Today. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – The parents of a missing government intern want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie-detector test now that the California congressman has reversed himself and admitted he had an affair with their daughter. Billy Martin, a lawyer for the parents of Chandra Levy, …
Washington Post staff writers Petula Dvorak and Allan Lengel report. Excerpt: Chandra Levy’s parents found little solace in Rep. Gary A. Condit’s admission that he had an affair with their missing daughter and will ask him to take a polygraph test because they doubt that he has disclosed all he knows, a spokesman for the …
Staff writer Robert Sanchez of the suburban Chicago Daily Herald reports on voice stress analysis. Excerpt: A technique called voice stress analysis claims to make lie detecting as simple as listening to someone talk. Using a computer laptop, special software and a microphone, an interviewer can determine if someone is telling the truth. Local police …
In an article titled “Corpus, Lacson ‘war’ heats up,” Carlito Pablo, Armand N. Nocum, and Jerome Aning of the Inquirer News Service report on the ongoing furor in the Philippines arising from allegations of corruption made by whistleblower Angelo Manaway, AKA “Ador.” Excerpt: IT’S BEGINNING to look like a face-off between Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson …
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 …