{"id":3029,"date":"2001-06-29T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2001-06-29T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:28:09","slug":"philippine-whistleblower-agrees-to-be-polygraphed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/29\/philippine-whistleblower-agrees-to-be-polygraphed\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Whistleblower Agrees to be Polygraphed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The Philippine website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.net\">INQ7.net<\/a> reports in an article titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquirer.net\/brk\/2001\/jun\/29\/brkpol_6-1.htm\">&#8220;&#8216;Ador&#8217; wants to meet President before taking polygraph test.&#8221;<\/a> The short article is cited in full here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A CIVILIAN agent of the former Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) said that he wants to meet with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before subjecting himself to a lie detector test.<\/p><p>Ador (not his real name) told radio dzBB that while he was willing to undergo a polygraph test he would rather meet first with the President to discuss his recent revelations that he had first-hand knowledge the PAOCTF engaged in kidnappings allegedly upon the orders of its erstwhile chief, Senator-elect Panfilo Lacson.<\/p><p>Lacson concurrently headed the Philippine National Police and PAOCTF until last January.<\/p><p>Ador in a message to Ms Macapagal said: &#8220;Ako po ay tiklop-tuhod na nakikiusap kung pwede ng makausap kayo bago ako ay mag-exam para mapatunayan ang aking sinasabi (I am begging you please talk to me before I undergo a lie detector test so that I can prove what I have said so far).&#8221;<\/p><p>Ador also asked Malaca\u00f1ang for protection for his family in line with his offer to testify and file charges against Lacson.<\/p><p>The former civilian agent also alleged that the senator-elect&#8217;s prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, Senior Superintendents Cesar Mancao and Michael Ray Aquino, had played major roles in the kidnappings staged by the PAOCTF.<\/p><p>In an interview with dzBB on Friday, Mancao denied Ador&#8217;s charges. He dared Ador to face him personally and repeat his claims even as he urged the agent to take the polygraph test. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Whistleblowers should not be subjected to trial by polygraph. As Dr. James Blascovitch noted at the 2nd public meeting of the National Academy of Sciences\/National Research Council <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/nas.shtml\">polygraph review committee<\/a>, &#8220;every examiner I asked at [the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute], &#8216;If you wanted someone to fail this test, could you have them do it, physiologically?&#8217; they said &#8216;yes.'&#8221; On the other hand, polygraph tests can also be manipulated by those who understand <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">the lie behind the lie detector<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine website INQ7.net reports in an article titled, &#8220;&#8216;Ador&#8217; wants to meet President before taking polygraph test.&#8221; The short article is cited in full here: A CIVILIAN agent of the former Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) said that he wants to meet with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before subjecting himself to a lie detector &#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":[338],"class_list":{"0":"post-3029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-philippines","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","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=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}