{"id":3157,"date":"2001-09-14T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2001-09-14T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2021-02-21T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:29:29","slug":"witness-in-terror-investigations-fails-lie-detector-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/14\/witness-in-terror-investigations-fails-lie-detector-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness in Terror Investigations Fails Lie Detector &#8220;Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/journaltimes.com\/news\/national\/feds-make-first-arrest-in-attacks\/article_939da340-944f-51e1-8d81-0b321f6a4426.html\">&#8220;Feds Make First Arrest in Attacks,&#8221;<\/a> John Solomon and Karen Gullo of the Associated Press report that an acquaintance of one of the hijackers (not necessarily the material witness who was arrested) had &#8220;failed&#8221; a polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221; Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Meanwhile, the FBI provided warnings Friday to two Southeast cities &#8211; Richmond, Va., and Atlanta &#8211; that information developed since Tuesday&#8217;s attacks suggested terrorists may have had plans for attacks in those cities, law enforcement officials said.<\/p><p>But late Friday, further investigation left officials doubtful of the threat.<\/p><p>The information came from an acquaintance of one of the hijackers, suggesting Federal Reserve banks in the cities might be targeted, the officials said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.<\/p><p>The information was shared with the cities, but the witness failed a a lie-detector test Friday evening, suggesting his account was not credible, the officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is irresponsible for law enforcement officers to either credit or discount information based on pseudoscientific lie detector &#8220;testing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;Feds Make First Arrest in Attacks,&#8221; John Solomon and Karen Gullo of the Associated Press report that an acquaintance of one of the hijackers (not necessarily the material witness who was arrested) had &#8220;failed&#8221; a polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221; Excerpt: Meanwhile, the FBI provided warnings Friday to two Southeast cities &#8211; Richmond, Va., &#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":[30,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-terrorism","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","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=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}