{"id":2976,"date":"2001-04-25T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2001-04-25T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:15","slug":"experts-disagree-about-lie-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/04\/25\/experts-disagree-about-lie-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Experts Disagree About Lie Detector&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Associated Press correspondent Jesse J. Holland <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010501105229\/http:\/\/news.excite.com\/news\/ap\/010425\/17\/fbi-lie-detectors\">reports<\/a> on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary&#8217;s 25 April hearing on &#8220;Issues Surrounding the Use of Polygraphs.&#8221; <strong>Note that the only scientific expert among the witnesses who spoke was Professor William G. Iacono.<\/strong> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The FBI might have started earlier to investigate Robert Hanssen, the agent accused of spying, if the bureau hadn&#8217;t resisted subjecting its agents to routine lie detector tests, advocates of the polygraph tests told a Senate panel Wednesday. &#8220;It is my opinion that in a security screening polygraph, Robert Hanssen would have reacted with greater than 99 percent certainty,&#8221; said Richard Keifer, a past president of the American Polygraph Association.<\/p><p>&#8230;<\/p><p>Opponents of polygraphs say innocent people who are nervous can fail easily, and spies can find out from libraries and the Internet how to manipulate lie-detector test results to their advantages.<\/p><p>&#8220;Someone who is clever enough to be a spy should be clever enough to learn these simple techniques to beat a polygraph,&#8221; said William Iacono, a psychology professor from the University of Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press correspondent Jesse J. Holland reports on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary&#8217;s 25 April hearing on &#8220;Issues Surrounding the Use of Polygraphs.&#8221; Note that the only scientific expert among the witnesses who spoke was Professor William G. Iacono. Excerpt: WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The FBI might have started earlier to investigate Robert Hanssen, the &#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":[70,325,304,323,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-2976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-polygraph-screening","8":"tag-richard-keifer","9":"tag-robert-p-hanssen","10":"tag-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary","11":"tag-william-g-iacono","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","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=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}