{"id":182,"date":"2008-03-27T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:42:39","slug":"us-foists-lie-detectors-on-iraqi-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/us-foists-lie-detectors-on-iraqi-government\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Foists Lie Detectors on Iraqi Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Although the U.S. National Academy of Sciences roundly rejected polygraph screening as pseudoscience in a landmark 2002 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/publications\/10420\">report<\/a>, the U.S. Government <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/stenbit-polygraph-memo.shtml\" title=\"Continued Use of Polygraph Techniques\">continues<\/a> to swear by it. Now the U.S. military in Iraq is soliciting bids to train Iraqi government agencies in the black art of lie detection, as Sharon Weinberger of Wired&#8217;s &#8220;Danger Blog&#8221; reports in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080328232753\/http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/03\/iraqi-governmen.html\" title=\"Iraqi Government to Use Lie Detectors\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Iraqi Government to Use Lie Detectors.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is worth bearing in mind that, as AntiPolygraph.org has documented, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/al-qaeda-lie-detection.shtml\" title=\"Encyclopedia of Jihad extract on lie detection\">Al-Qaeda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/myth-of-the-lie-detector.shtml\" title=\"The Myth of the Lie Detector\">Iraqi jihadist<\/a> literature shows that they understand that the lie detector is a sham, and have some understanding of how to fool it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the U.S. National Academy of Sciences roundly rejected polygraph screening as pseudoscience in a landmark 2002 report, the U.S. Government continues to swear by it. 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