Vera Wilde on the Imprisonment of Doug Williams
Artist and Rebel News writer Vera Wilde comments on the federal government’s entrapment and imprisonment of Doug Williams in “Need to Beat a Lie Detector? He Could Have Taught You.”
A Final Appeal from Doug Williams to Stop the Madness of Polygraph “Testing”
A week before he is to begin serving a two year federal prison sentence, Doug Williams, the founder of Polygraph.com, has made a final appeal to the U.S. government to end its misplaced reliance on the pseudoscience of polygraphy. Williams, a former police polygraphist who offered training and instructional materials on how to pass a … Read more
Doug Williams Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures to Undercover Agents
The following is a special report by attorney David C. Graham, who was present at Doug Williams’ sentencing hearing at the federal court house in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Tuesday, 22 September 2015. I traveled to Oklahoma City to attend and report on the sentencing of Doug Williams. I attended his trial earlier this year, in … Read more
Bloomberg Businessweek Profiles Doug Williams
This week’s issue of Bloomberg Businessweek includes an in-depth feature article by investigative reporter Drake Bennett profiling Doug Williams‘ decades-long efforts against the pseudoscience of polygraphy and the federal government’s efforts to silence him. We won’t summarize the article here: it’s well worth reading in full. See “Man vs. Machine: The True Story of an Ex-Cop’s War … Read more
Doug Williams Shows How to Beat a Lie Detector Test
Bloomberg Business has published a video report on how to beat a polygraph test featuring Doug Williams of Norman, Oklahoma, who was targeted for entrapment in the federal government’s Operation Lie Busters investigation. Williams, himself a former police polygraph examiner, has been a vocal critic of polygraphy for some 35 years and is the author of How … Read more
American Polygraph Association Seeks to Limit Electoral Challenges, Foreign Influence
On 4 July 2015, in a message board post titled “APA Board Conpires [sic] to Limit Eligibility for Elections and International Influence,” a pseudonymous user posting as “Dedicated to Truth”1 attached a Microsoft Word document purporting to be a working draft (141 kb .doc file) of the American Polygraph Association’s bylaws. AntiPolygraph.org has reason to … Read more
Florida Congressman Dennis Ross Seeks Radical Amendment to Employee Polygraph Protection Act
On Monday, 8 June 2015, U.S. Representative Dennis A. Ross (R-FL) held a press conference with Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd to promote a proposed amendment of the 1988 Employee Polygraph Protection Act “to provide an exemption from the protections of that Act with regard to certain prospective employees whose job would include caring for … Read more
Developer’s Silence Raises Concern About Surespot Encrypted Messenger
In June 2014, I suggested Surespot Encrypted Messenger to visitors to AntiPolygraph.org as a secure means of contacting me, and I’ve been including my Surespot address (georgemaschke) in my signature block on message board posts and e-mails, as well as on AntiPolygraph.org’s contact page. Now I’m not so sure about Surespot. I fear the developer … Read more
Business Insider on How to Pass a Polygraph Test
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015, Business Insider published a story by reporter Christina Sterbenz titled “The one thing you need to know to pass a polygraph test.”1 AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke and American Polygraph Association president Raymond Nelson were interviewed for this report. A few points in the article merit special note. Sterbenz writes: Most … Read more