{"id":1052,"date":"2013-08-17T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2013-08-17T06:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:24:47","slug":"mcclatchy-on-operations-lie-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/17\/mcclatchy-on-operations-lie-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"McClatchy on Operations Lie Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crime in progress? Doug Williams explaining how to produce a scorable reaction on a polygraph chart for Penn & Teller Bullshit!<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marisa Taylor and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. report<\/a> for McClatchy that the federal government is targeting for criminal prosecution those who teach methods for passing a polygraph test, noting that at least two instructors have been targeted by undercover sting operations thus far: former police polygrapher Doug Williams, who runs Polygraph.com<\/a>, and Chad Dixon, who ran a now defunct website called PolygraphExpert.net. McClatchy reports that in the course of the investigation, which is called “Operation Lie Busters,”<\/a> [i]nvestigators confiscated business records from the two men, which included the names of as many as 5,000 people who\u2019d sought polygraph-beating advice.”<\/p>\n

Dixon has pleaded guilty to unspecified charges that remain under seal and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, though prosecutors are seeking a two-year sentence. Williams is not reported to have been charged with any crime, and he “declined to comment other than to say he’s done nothing wrong.”<\/p>\n

AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke may also have been targeted by an attempted sting. McClatchy reports:<\/p>\n

George Maschke, a former Army Reserve intelligence officer who\u2019s a translator and runs a website that\u2019s critical of polygraph testing, said he also suspected he\u2019d been targeted although he\u2019d done nothing illegal.<\/p>\n

In May, the translator received an unsolicited email in Persian from someone purporting to be \u201ca member of an Islamic group that seeks to restore freedom to Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the federal police are suspicious of me, they want to do a lie detector test on me,\u201d the email read.<\/p>\n

The emailer asked for a copy of Maschke\u2019s book, which describes countermeasures, and for Maschke to help \u201cin any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maschke said he suspected the email was a ruse by federal agents. He advised the person \u201cto comply with applicable laws,\u201d according to an email he showed McClatchy.<\/p>\n

Although federal authorities haven\u2019t contacted him, Maschke said he worried that visitors to his site, AntiPolygraph.org, would be targeted simply for looking for information about polygraph testing.<\/p>\n

“The criminalization of the imparting of information sets a pernicious precedent,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is fundamentally wrong, and bad public policy, for the government to resort to entrapment to silence speech that it does not approve of.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Instead of criminalizing truth-telling about the weaknesses of polygraphy, the U.S. government should heed the warnings of the scientific community and terminate its misplaced reliance on this pseudoscientific ritual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marisa Taylor and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. report for McClatchy that the federal government is targeting for criminal prosecution those who teach methods for passing a polygraph test, noting that at least two instructors have been targeted by undercover sting operations thus far: former police polygrapher Doug Williams, who runs Polygraph.com, and Chad Dixon, who …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,88,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-1052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-countermeasures","8":"tag-customs-and-border-protection","9":"tag-operation-lie-busters","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}