{"id":3426,"date":"2002-02-28T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2002-02-28T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"fbi-uses-polygraphs-in-anthrax-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/28\/fbi-uses-polygraphs-in-anthrax-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Uses Polygraphs in Anthrax Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020228074937\/http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2002\/02\/27\/anthrax.htm\">&#8220;Officials look for link in anthrax samples from labs,&#8221;<\/a> the Associated Press reports that the FBI has used polygraph interrogations in its investigation of last year&#8217;s anthrax letter attacks. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The FBI believes the anthrax letters were the work of a single scientist, and some of the scientists fit aspects of the agency profile of the likely attacker, the officials said.<\/p><p>But no single suspect has emerged from among the group, and some of the scientists under scrutiny have passed polygraph exams, officials said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Because polygraph &#8220;testing&#8221; has no validity and is easily defeated through the use of countermeasures, no one can be excluded as a subject by virtue of having passed a polygraph &#8220;test.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled &#8220;Officials look for link in anthrax samples from labs,&#8221; the Associated Press reports that the FBI has used polygraph interrogations in its investigation of last year&#8217;s anthrax letter attacks. Excerpt: The FBI believes the anthrax letters were the work of a single scientist, and some of the scientists fit aspects 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":[82,30,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-anthrax","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-terrorism","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}