Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Mike Levsen writes for the Aberdeen, South Dakota American News. Excerpt: I’m going on record right now. I will not submit voluntarily to a polygraph test at any time, for any reason. Even if I’m innocent – especially if I’m innocent. The use of the lie-detector test has not gone the way of reading bumps …
Washington Times staff writer Rowan Scarborough reports. Excerpt: Captured Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq are proving adept at beating lie-detector tests, frustrating attempts to find banned weapons and to learn what happened to Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. U.S. officials and military officers say trained interrogators in Baghdad have caught Iraqi Ba’ath Party loyalists lying …
Washington Times staff writer Rowan Scarborough reports in a an article titled “Navy pilot’s fate now looks grim”. Excerpt: A secret Pentagon report states that once-promising leads in the hunt for Capt. Michael Scott Speicher in Iraq have turned up no evidence of his whereabouts, contradicting public official comments that the search was producing positive …
Birmingham Post-Herald reporter Taylor Bright covers the developing scandal in Irondale, Alabama, whose mayor had sought polygraph testing at city hall in an attempt to find a whistleblower. Excerpt: Two Irondale City Council members want some answers — and perhaps an investigation into their own Police Department. Councilman Simpson Berry said he has received many …
The Virginian-Pilot reports that a settlement has been reached in an $18 million Employee Polygraph Protection Act lawsuit. Excerpt: NORFOLK — A lawsuit filed by a former Smithfield Packing Co. saleswoman against the meatpacker has been settled on the eve of trial this week. The terms were not disclosed. The former employee, Julie M. Bannister, …
Birmingham News staff writer Anita Debro reports on the scandal in the Irondale, Alabama city government. Excerpt: Irondale officials remained tight-lipped Monday about an investigation into the police department and who may have leaked information about a drug case involving a city councilman’s son. Irondale’s Public Safety Committee, charged with handling the internal investigation into …
In an article titled, “Councilman’s son faces jail term,” Birmingham Post-Herald reporter Taylor Bright writes that Irondale, AL mayor Allen Ramsey’s planned polygraph dragnet at city hall has been put on hold, and that the mayor himself is now under investigation. The son of an Irondale city councilman is expected to be sentenced to prison …
Leonora LaPeter reports for the St. Petersburg Times. Excerpt: TAMPA – Here are a few of the questions that polygraph examiner Mike Alaiwat asked a 60-something woman during a lie detector test recently: “Did you leave a razor in Mr. Jones’ bathroom?” “Do you know who put the razor in Mr. Jones’ bathroom? “Are you …
Taylor Bright of the Birmingham Post-Herald reports on the scandal in Irondale, Alabama in which the mayor has ordered wide-ranging polygraph “testing” of municipal employees. Excerpt: The mayor of Irondale has gone on the offensive to find the person who released a police report naming a city councilman’s son in a marijuana trafficking incident. Jefferson …
Staff writer Anita Debro reports for the Birmingham News. Excerpt: The City of Irondale will spend $200 for each polygraph test given to employees and city officials in an effort to find out who leaked confidential police information. There are about 60 people who work in the municipal complex on 20th Street South who could …