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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The Associated Press reports in this article published by the New York Times: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the latest attempt to clear her name from drug allegations, Marion Jones took a lie detector test that her lawyer says vindicates the star sprinter. Jones took the test from Ronald Homer, a certified polygraph examiner, on … Read more
Gallatin News Examiner editor Deborah Highland and staff writer Jane Stegmeier report: An investigator from the Tennessee Fire Marshal’s office is conducting polygraph tests on Gallatin’s firefighters to determine who, if anyone, among their ranks is a quarter thief. “I decided that we would find whether we had somebody that wasn’t telling the truth,” Gallatin … Read more
In their “Inside the Ring” column, Washington Times reporters Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough question a recent New York Times report that the FBI has begun polygraphing DoD civilians regarding an alleged leak of classified information: Who’s lying? The breathless headline in a major daily newspaper read yesterday, “Polygraph Testing Starts at Pentagon in Chalabi … Read more