Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
In an article titled, “Iraq Turns to Lie Detectors to Outsmart Al-Qaeda,” Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the graduation of the first class of U.S. Government-trained Iraqi polygraph operators. But to outsmart Al-Qaeda, doesn’t one need to be smarter than Al-Qaeda? As AntiPolygraph.org has documented, Al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents — unlike the U.S. and …
Congressional Quarterly national security editor Jeff Stein discusses a jihadist article on polygraph countermeasures recently discovered and translated by AntiPolygraph.org: Lying in Wait: Al Qaeda “knows that polygraphs are unreliable and has an idea of how to beat them,” says a former U.S. Army linguist. George W. Maschke, a translator fluent in Arabic and Farsi, …
New York Times correspondent David Rohde, in an article titled, “In 2 Abandoned Kabul Houses, Some Hints of Al Qaeda Presence,” reports that documents seized in two Kabul houses formerly used by members of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda organization include Arabic language instructions on how to pass lie detector tests. With the FBI making …