{"id":1181,"date":"2014-02-11T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:01:57","slug":"reason-tv-on-u-s-government-efforts-to-criminalize-the-teaching-of-polygraph-countermeasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/11\/reason-tv-on-u-s-government-efforts-to-criminalize-the-teaching-of-polygraph-countermeasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason TV on U.S. Government Efforts to Criminalize the Teaching of Polygraph Countermeasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reason TV\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/\">Reason TV<\/a>, in a <a title=\"Reason TV - Why Teaching How to Beat Polygraphs Can Land You in Jail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=svd8w29ZAsQ\">report<\/a> produced by Joshua Swain and published on 11 February 2014, spoke with McClatchy investigative reporter <a title=\"McClatchy Articles by Marisa Taylor\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141024134008\/http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/search_results\/Marisa+Taylor\">Marisa Taylor<\/a> and Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; <a title=\"Federation of American Scientists :: Project on Government Secrecy\" href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/\">Project on Government Secrecy<\/a> about recent efforts by the federal government to criminalize the teaching of methods for passing or beating polygraph examinations. Also interviewed was\u00a0 <a title=\"Instructors | Virginia School of Polygraph\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141012014910\/http:\/\/www.virginiaschoolofpolygraph.com\/instructors\/\">Darryl DeBow<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Virginia School of Polygraph\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140104134122\/http:\/\/virginiaschoolofpolygraph.com\/\">Virginia School of Polygraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Teaching How to Beat Polygraphs Can Land You in Jail\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svd8w29ZAsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason TV, in a report produced by Joshua Swain and published on 11 February 2014, spoke with McClatchy investigative reporter Marisa Taylor and Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists&#8217; Project on Government Secrecy about recent efforts by the federal government to criminalize the teaching of methods for passing or beating polygraph examinations. 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