Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
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 …
Tom Squitieri and Kevin Johnson report for USA Today. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – The parents of a missing government intern want Rep. Gary Condit to take a lie-detector test now that the California congressman has reversed himself and admitted he had an affair with their daughter. Billy Martin, a lawyer for the parents of Chandra Levy, …
Washington Post staff writers Petula Dvorak and Allan Lengel report. Excerpt: Chandra Levy’s parents found little solace in Rep. Gary A. Condit’s admission that he had an affair with their missing daughter and will ask him to take a polygraph test because they doubt that he has disclosed all he knows, a spokesman for the …