Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
The Associated Press reports. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI Director Louis Freeh and his senior deputies will take lie-detector tests as part of stepped-up security procedures following the arrest of a veteran FBI agent charged with spying for Moscow over a period of 15 years. “The director always includes himself in whatever policy applies to …
Kathleen Koch reports for CNN. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (CNN) — The director of one of the nation’s nuclear weapons labs has told employees they don’t have to cooperate when asked medical questions by government polygraphers, CNN has learned. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, with headquarters near Albuquerque, New Mexico, have expressed concern that, before being given …
Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist Alan P. Zelicoff writes in a special to the Albuquerque Tribune. Excerpt: …DOE polygraphers claim that there are but four questions to the examination, all directly related to national security. This is a lie. In each and every polygraph, the subject will invariably be told something like this: “You’ve done …
The following memorandum was distributed by e-mail at Sandia National Laboratories on 2 April 2001: This message, written by Labs Director C. Paul Robinson, is being sent at his request to all Sandians: As you have doubtless already heard, we have received complaints from a growing number of employees regarding the Congressionally mandated polygraphs for …
Albuquerque Tribune reporter Ollie Reed, Jr. reports. Excerpt: Medical questions on mandated polygraph tests are raising eyebrows among some scientists at Sandia National Laboratories. Rod Geer, a spokesman at the Albuquerque lab, acknowledged today that there is a growing concern among Sandia scientists that polygraph questions about the medications individual scientists take are invasive and …
Albuquerque Journal staff writer John J. Lumpkin reports. Excerpt: Some scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are charging that lie-detector tests started in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case have become a little too personal. Polygraphers are asking scientists about their medical histories, including what medication they take, said Al Zelicoff, a medical doctor, …
Jo Anne Allen writes for Reuters. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some U.S. nuclear weapons scientists in New Mexico are boycotting required polygraph tests on the grounds that they contain questions unrelated to national security, a senior scientist said on Wednesday. “The polygraphers are asking medical questions — what medication you’re taking and what medical conditions …
Washington Post staff writers Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus report on a planned Department of Defense review of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s investigation of Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King. Excerpt: The Defense Department inspector general is investigating the Navy’s failed prosecution of Daniel M. King, a chief petty officer who was held for …
Correspondent David Martin reports for CBS Evening News. Excerpt: (CBS) Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuqurque, New Mexico, one of three nuclear weapons labs run by the Department of Energy are in revolt, threatening not to take required lie detector tests, because they include personal questions which have nothing to do with protecting secrets, …
CBS 60 Minutes II reports on the case of Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King, who became a suspect after an inconclusive polygraph screening “test.” The Navy claims that King confessed to committing espionage in a post-test interrogation. King maintains that his alleged confession was false and the result of abusive interrogation tactics including …