Syndicated columnist Steve Chapman comments in an article published by the Prescott, Arizona Daily Courier: In May 1978, police arrested four Chicago-area men on charges of murdering a suburban man and raping and murdering his fiancée. All of the suspects said they were innocent, but no real doubt existed about their guilt: Three of them, … Read more
North County Times staff writer Tim Mayer reports in an article titled, “Fogelstrom said investigators deceived them” that the Riverside County (California) Sheriff’s Department conducted a coercive polygraph examination of a minor under false pretenses. Excerpt: CARLSBAD —- The father of the teenage companion of 17-year-old Eric Sears —- who was found dead in Joshua … Read more
The BBC reports: Convicted paedophiles could be forced to take lie detector tests to ensure they stay away from children, under plans by Home Secretary David Blunkett. He wants compulsory testing in Sussex, Northumberland and the West Midlands – currently piloting voluntary tests. Probation officers would ask offenders whether they had had contact with children … Read more
Home affairs editor Alan Travis reports for the Guardian. Home Office plans to introduce compulsory lie detector tests to ensure that convicted paedophiles do not offend again are worrying cabinet members. The home secretary, David Blunkett, has admitted to his cabinet colleagues that the plans “are not without controversy” and is seeking legal clearance from … Read more
Hartford Courant staff writer Tracy Gordon Fox reports. Excerpt: The lawsuit Adrienne LaMorte brought against the Connecticut State Police over her removal from the department’s polygraph unit ended in June when she received a fat check for $216,000. But the ripples the case generated within state law enforcement circles are still being felt, with top … Read more
The Associated Press reports in this article published on AZCentral.com: MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s governmental National Human Rights Commission recommended Sunday that police, government agencies and investigators not use tests involving polygraphs, also known as lie detector tests. The commission said the tests “violate human rights” because they represent an invasion of privacy and their … Read more
In an article titled, “Entering unknown territory,” Los Alamos Monitor assistant editor Roger Snodgrass confirms that some employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been ordered to undergo polygraph “testing” as the Deparment of Energy investigates the disappearance of two removable data storage devices. Excerpt: According to sources, the investigation of lost computer recording data … Read more
An Associated Press report published by ABCNews.com under the title, “UC Halts Los Alamos’ Classified Work” mentions the possibility of a polygraph hunt for potential security violators as Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) attempts to locate two data storage devices containing classified information. Excerpt: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. July 16, 2004 — All classified work at Los … Read more
The Iraqi fabricator who provided false information that Iraq possessed mobile biological warfare laboratories and was believed in part because he had passed a polygraph “test” has been publicly identified as Major Mohammad Harith. Secretary of State Colin Powell used Harith’s bogus information in an attempt to justify the planned invasion of Iraq in a … Read more
New York Newsday staff writer Brian Boyd reports: Assemb. Adam Clayton Powell IV Wednesday sought to knock down the latest rape allegation against him by saying results from a lie-detector test he took prove he did not force the woman to have sex. Powell, a Harlem Democrat, contends he and the woman, whose name has … Read more