Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
KOBTV.com has published the following brief Associated Press report: (Santa Fe-AP) — The state Supreme Court has ruled that polygraph test results can continue to be used as evidence in New Mexico courts. New Mexico has allowed the use of lie detector results in courts for decades. However, the Supreme Court has been considering whether …
Nicole Weisensee Egan reports for the Philadelphia Daily News in an article titled, “Discipline chief probed for lying, sources say.” Excerpt: The Pennsylvania State Police’s disciplinary officer, who has fired troopers for lying in investigations, is himself under internal investigation for lying during an arbitration, sources said. Capt. Robert “Barry” Titler, 49, who has been …
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer John Shiffman reports in an article titled, “A.C. firm must pay fired trio $4 million”: No one ever solved the mystery of who stole $4,000 from a desk at the telemarketing offices of a Jersey Shore time-share, or even whether any crime was really committed at all. But this much is …
Douglas Heingartner reports for the New York Times. Excerpt: IT is a time-honored interrogation tool and a staple of film noir: the lie-detector test that can incriminate or exonerate. But such tests need not involve strapping someone to a machine. In fact, they may not require the subject’s presence – or awareness – at all. …
The following Reuters AlertNet report is cited here in full: GUATEMALA CITY, June 25 (Reuters) – Every member of the police force in Guatemala will be subjected to lie detector tests and background checks after police were found running criminal gangs, President Oscar Berger said on Friday. Berger said it would take four months to …
Associated Press writer Dan Molinski reports in this article published by New York Newsday. Excerpt: BOGOTA, Colombia — A group of Colombian soldiers claiming to have accidentally killed five peasants face lie detector tests after investigations showed that at least one of the victims was shot at point-blank range, authorities said Thursday. In a statement, …
Joel Mowbray writes for the Washington Times. Excerpt: To a number of civilian employees at the Pentagon, a New York Times story on June 3 came as quite a jolt: Some of them apparently already had been polygraphed as part of an investigation into Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi. But it never happened. Nearly …
The Defense Department’s Technical Support Working Group made the following announcement on 1 June 2004: June 1, 2004 – The Investigative Support and Forensics (IS&F) subgroup of TSWG began a DHS-funded task for the development of a polygraphy chair and associated software. Atlas will develop a standoff measurement system that can unobtrusively gather physiological and/or …
Oded Hermoni reports for Ha’aretz: The American government is funding the development of new technology for a polygraph machine that is capable of identifying whether a person is telling the truth, without physically attaching him to the equipment. There are also plans to develop a mat of sensors that will be used in airports to …
Washington Post staff writer Amy Shipley reports. Excerpt: Marion Jones passed a lie detector test in which she was asked if she had ever taken performance-enhancing drugs, her attorneys announced yesterday in another public attempt to persuade the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to drop its case against the five-time Olympic medal winner. In a test administered …