{"id":3700,"date":"2002-08-28T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:33","slug":"spooky-goofs-abdallah-higazy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/28\/spooky-goofs-abdallah-higazy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spooky Goofs&#8221; [Abdallah Higazy Case]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Chisun Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2002\/08\/27\/spooky-goofs\/\">reports<\/a> for the <em>Village Voice<\/em>. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Last fall, after inventorying the rooms guests had fled on September 11 in a hotel directly across from the World Trade Center, a security guard reported finding a ground-to-air aviation radio locked in the safe of Egyptian student Abdallah Higazy. Higazy was called in, questioned, and thrown into solitary for a month. During an FBI lie detector test, he confessed. Then the radio&#8217;s real owner, an American pilot, came forward to claim it. The security guard admitted he had lied. Higazy was released.<\/p><p>Higazy&#8217;s wrongful captivity had many bizarre moments, but the specter of possible FBI coercion in obtaining his false confession has overshadowed all. In fact, federal judge Jed Rakoff recently ordered a probe of the polygraphing. Yet a careful review of records unsealed by the judge&#8211;over vehement opposition from U.S. Attorney James Comey&#8217;s office&#8211;shows the case was flawed from the beginning by investigative carelessness and assumption, problems never before fully revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chisun Lee reports for the Village Voice. Excerpt: Last fall, after inventorying the rooms guests had fled on September 11 in a hotel directly across from the World Trade Center, a security guard reported finding a ground-to-air aviation radio locked in the safe of Egyptian student Abdallah Higazy. Higazy was called in, questioned, and thrown &#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":[410,321,30,429,411,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-abdallah-higazy","8":"tag-false-confession","9":"tag-fbi","10":"tag-james-comey","11":"tag-jed-rakoff","12":"tag-terrorism","13":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","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=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}