Category «Polygraph»

“Lawyer: No Need for Lie Detector”

MSNBC.com reports on the Levy family’s polygraph challenge to Rep. Gary Condit. Excerpt: July 9 — Rep. Gary Condit will not take a lie detector test as Chandra Levy’s parents are requesting, his lawyer told NBC News on Monday. Abbe Lowell emphasized that investigators are satisfied with the congressman’s responses in three interviews and he …

More Polygraph Madness in Manila

In an article titled “Corpus, Lacson ‘war’ heats up,” Carlito Pablo, Armand N. Nocum, and Jerome Aning of the Inquirer News Service report on the ongoing furor in the Philippines arising from allegations of corruption made by whistleblower Angelo Manaway, AKA “Ador.” Excerpt: IT’S BEGINNING to look like a face-off between Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson …

Manila: “Ador Passes 2nd Polygraph Test”

Jonathan Fernandez reports for Sun.Star. Excerpt: MANILA — After failing the first test last week, whistle-blower Angelo Manaway, popularly known as Ador, had passed the second polygraph test amid allegations that a top official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had helped him. AFP intelligence service chief Col. Victor Corpus on Friday said …

Washington Post Endorses Polygraph Screening

Today’s Washington Post editorial, “Mr. Hanssen’s Plea” carries with it an implicit endorsement of polygraph screening. Excerpt (emphasis added): Fixing…vulnerabilities [in FBI security procedures] is the task ahead. No system can ensure perfect security. There will be smart and unscrupulous would-be spies at an organization the size of the bureau who find cracks to slip …

More on Polygraph Dragnet at Philippine City Hall

The polygraph interrogation of public employees in General Santos, Philippines, reported by the Sun.Star website on 29 June 2001 is underway, Sun.Star reports in a new article titled “NBI Polygraph experts test tax collectors.” Excerpt: GENERAL SANTOS — Polygraph experts from the National Bureau Investigation have completed the polygraph tests to city hall employees in …

“‘Ador’ Wants New Test; Lacson Seeks Probe”

Jerome Aning, Armand N. Nocum, and Cathy C. Yamsuan report for the Philippine Inquirer News Service. Excerpt: “ADOR,” a former civilian agent of the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, last night demanded to take an “independent” polygraph test witnessed by representatives of the press, fearing that he failed one administered earlier yesterday at the …