{"id":2836,"date":"2000-12-15T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2000-12-15T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2021-02-16T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:19:21","slug":"government-still-relying-on-polygraphy-in-wen-ho-lee-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2000\/12\/15\/government-still-relying-on-polygraphy-in-wen-ho-lee-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Still Relying on Polygraphy in Wen Ho Lee Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em> staff writer Walter Pincus, in an article entitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2000\/12\/15\/for-government-wen-ho-lee-mystery-deepens\/d31f3424-7016-4dde-a5b6-5c618e475682\/\">&#8220;For Government, Wen Ho Lee Mystery Deepens&#8221;<\/a> writes that efforts to recover from a New Mexico dump the data tapes that Dr. Lee allegedly threw in a trash bin have been fruitless. Pincus observes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Under the terms of Lee&#8217;s plea agreement, the 10 days of questioning granted the government are over; the only step left for the government is to administer a polygraph or &#8220;lie detector&#8221; exam.<\/p><p>&#8220;If he shows deception&#8221; on the fundamental questions of why he made the tapes and whether he destroyed them, a senior official said, &#8220;we are right back where we were when we first discovered what he had done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Pincus&#8217; anonymous senior official needs to learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">the lie behind the lie detector<\/a>: polygraph chart readings cannot provide the answers the FBI and Energy Department are looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post staff writer Walter Pincus, in an article entitled, &#8220;For Government, Wen Ho Lee Mystery Deepens&#8221; writes that efforts to recover from a New Mexico dump the data tapes that Dr. Lee allegedly threw in a trash bin have been fruitless. Pincus observes: Under the terms of Lee&#8217;s plea agreement, the 10 days of &#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":[287],"class_list":{"0":"post-2836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-doe","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","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=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}