Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
New York Press writer Alexander Cockburn comments on polygraphy in his column, “Wild Justice” (Vol. 14, No. 29). Excerpt: I’m no fan of the man from Modesto. But it was troubling to see Gary Condit being hounded by the cable news shows into taking a polygraph test and then trashed for using his own polygrapher, …
Pete Williams of NBC News reports. Excerpt: July 17 — Even though Rep. Gary Condit’s lawyers have now turned over the results of their own lie detector test, Washington, D.C. police still want the congressman to take one of theirs. All of this has brought the science of lie detectors front and center. How do …
FrontPageMagazine.com columnist Lowell Ponte discusses polygraphy in the context of Rep. Gary Condit’s recent polygraph “test.” Excerpt: A LIE-DETECTOR HAS VINDICATED GARY CONDIT. That was the message the California Congressman’s politically-cunning lawyer Abbe Lowell released to the press late last Friday. Within minutes, Leftist pundits were on television declaring that the Modesto Democrat had reclaimed …
The Wichita Falls, Texas Times Record News addresses polygraphy in this editorial. Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Gary Condit may or may not have had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy. But, we won’t get any closer to the truth of the matter if we’re going to depend on lie detectors to get us …
So says Modesto Bee staff writer John Gorenfeld in an article thus titled. Clearly, Gorenfeld has not yet discovered “the lie behind the lie detector” (and the polygraphers with whom he spoke didn’t clue him in). Excerpt: Just how much does Rep. Gary Condit know about the disappearance of Chandra Levy, the Modesto woman last …
Washington Post staff writers Allan Lengel and Petula Dvorak report. Excerpt: Rep. Gary A. Condit’s attorney announced yesterday that the congressman had passed a privately administered lie detector test that asked critical questions about the disappearance of Chandra Levy, but police officials immediately questioned its validity. The announcement that Condit had passed a polygraph — …
CBS News reports that Abbe D. Lowell, Rep. Gary D. Condit’s attorney, has announced that the congressman has taken and passed a polygraph “test” in connection with the whereabouts of Chandra Levy. Excerpt: (CBS) Gary Condit’s lawyer says the embattled congressman has taken and passed a lie detector test – one administered independently, and not …
Howard Fienberg, a research analyst with the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC writes for The Providence Journal. Excerpt: The parents of missing Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy do not believe that U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., has revealed all he knows of her whereabouts. Although police …
ABCNews.com reports in a feature length article. Excerpt: W A S H I N G T O N, July 11 — If investigators want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie detector test, his lawyer says they first will have to haggle over the sort of questions that can be asked. The FBI wants to …
Washington Post staff writers Arthur Santana and Bill Miller report. Excerpt: Law enforcement authorities have asked Rep. Gary A. Condit to submit to a polygraph examination and accepted an offer from Condit’s attorney to search his apartment, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said yesterday. Investigators also plan to interview members of Condit’s staff and …