{"id":197,"date":"2008-06-17T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T03:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:56:47","slug":"whitehousecoms-polygraph-examination-of-larry-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/whitehousecoms-polygraph-examination-of-larry-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"WhiteHouse.com&#8217;s Polygraph Examination of Larry Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>On Wednesday, 18 June 2008, both <a title=\"Larry Sinclair&#039;s Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080618010636\/http:\/\/larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com\/\">Larry Sinclair<\/a>, the Minnesota man who claims that in 1999 he performed oral sex on, and used cocaine with, then Illinois legislator Barack Obama and Dan Parisi&#8217;s WhiteHouse.com, which arranged for a polygraph examination of Mr. Sinclair, will be holding press conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The polygraph was conducted on Friday, 22 February 2008 by Edward I. Gelb of Los Angeles and reviewed by Gordon H. Barland of Salt Lake City. The following is a video commentary regarding that polygraph examination:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WhiteHouse.com&#039;s Polygraph Examination of Larry Sinclair\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hc8Ys8iXTiU?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><\/div>\n<p>For discussion and links to relevant documentation, see <a title=\"Larry Sinclair&#039;s Polygraph Examination\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=3863.0\">Larry Sinclair and the Polygraph<\/a> on the AntiPolygraph.org message board. For AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s earlier video commentary, which was recorded before the results of Mr. Sinclair&#8217;s polygraph examination were made public, see <a title=\"Video commentary on Larry Sinclair&#039;s polygraph examination\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/why-larry-sinclairs-polygraph-examination-is-evidence-of-nothing\/\">Why Larry Sinclair&#8217;s Polygraph Examination Will Be Evidence of Nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 18 June 2008, both Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims that in 1999 he performed oral sex on, and used cocaine with, then Illinois legislator Barack Obama and Dan Parisi&#8217;s WhiteHouse.com, which arranged for a polygraph examination of Mr. Sinclair, will be holding press conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, &#8230;<\/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":[24,23,204,25],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-polygraph","tag-larry-sinclair","tag-politics","tag-polygraph","tag-whitehousecom","anons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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