Washington Times staff writer Matthew Cella reports. Excerpt: Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey defended yesterday the results of a polygraph test administered to a man in prison for attacking two women in the same park where former government intern Chandra Levy’s remains were found, but he said police would like to ask the man … Read more
Washington Post staff writers Sari Horwitz and Allan Lengel report in an article titled, “Levy Probe Concentrates On Rock Creek Attacker.” Excerpt: Detectives in the Chandra Levy murder case are focusing on a man convicted of assaulting two women jogging in Rock Creek Park last year — a suspect who was initially discounted after he … Read more
Jim Muir reports for The Southern Illinoisan in an article titled, “Franklin Sheriff Says One Person Had Access to Pot Storage” Excerpt: BENTON — As the investigation into the disappearance of 5-10 pounds of marijuana from a secure county storage facility enters its third week, Franklin County Sheriff Bill Wilson said only one person from … Read more
Two years have passed since AntiPolygraph.org first went on-line on 18 September 2000. Since then, we’ve rapidly grown to become the Internet’s leading site for polygraph information and a focal point for public debate of polygraph issues. Our free book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (now in its second edition) has been downloaded 40,000+ … Read more
NewsMax.com reports. Excerpt: Three Muslim medical students who were stopped by police on Friday and interrogated for 17-hours after allegedly making jokes and threats related to the 9/11 anniversary have declined to take lie detector tests to back up their denials. The refusal came after their accuser, Georgia resident Eunice Stone, said she’d be willing … Read more
Newsday staff writer John Riley reports on post 9/11 civil rights abuses stemming from the material witness law in this well-researched investigative article, which is the fourth in a series. Among other things, he documents the case of Abdallah Higazy, from whom an FBI polygrapher extracted a false confession. Excerpt: Higazy, an Egyptian diplomat’s child … Read more
Zohar Blumenkranz reports for Ha’aretz. Excerpt: The Justice Ministry has prohibited El Al from subjecting its employees to polygraph tests aimed at discovering who in the company has been leaking information to the media. The ministry directive is based on a ruling by the attorney general opposing the use of these kinds of tests in … Read more
This short article from the website of KRQE News in Albuquerque, New Mexico is cited here in full: Sandia National Laboratories is looking into allegations of improper questioning of one of its employees by a U.S. Energy Department polygraph examiner. The unidentified employee alleges the examiner asked inappropriate medical questions during a lie detector test. … Read more
The Singapore Straits Times follows up on the polygraph “testing” of soccer players. Excerpt: WERE any of your players summoned by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau for lie-detector tests? If so, do you know what the outcome was? Would you like to know the names of those who flunked the test before you sign up … Read more
The Singapore Straits Times reports on the polygraph “testing” of soccer players. Excerpt: Club officials say they were ‘unofficially’ told of players who failed the test – they now have to decide what to do about it SOME S-League football players have failed the lie-detector tests introduced last year. But because the polygraph tests are … Read more