{"id":3891,"date":"2003-03-05T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2021-03-08T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:53:38","slug":"khalid-shaikh-mohammed-to-be-interrogated-with-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/khalid-shaikh-mohammed-to-be-interrogated-with-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to Be Interrogated with Polygraph?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030410012256\/http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/03-05-2003\/news\/story\/64475p-60092c.html\">&#8220;You can bet Mohammed will talk,&#8221;<\/a> New York <em>Daily News<\/em> columnist Zev Chafets suggests that alleged 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be subjected to polygraphic interrogation. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Polygraphs&#8230;are not only admissible but indispensable. &#8220;They won&#8217;t let him say a single word without being hooked up to a lie detector,&#8221; says X. &#8220;It may not be a perfect scientific device, but it&#8217;s close enough. And it will make him feel vulnerable, transparent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is to be hoped that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed&#8217;s interrogators are not under the illusion that the lie detector is anything remotely close to being a &#8220;perfect scientific device.&#8221; Al Qaeda knows it isn&#8217;t: see the <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/documents\/al-qaeda-lie-detection.shtml\">extract on instrumental lie detection<\/a> from Al-Qaeda&#8217;s <em>Encyclopedia of Jihad.<\/em> <strong>U.S. intelligence officials&#8217; misplaced faith in pseudoscientific lie detector &#8220;testing&#8221; is a danger to national security.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;You can bet Mohammed will talk,&#8221; New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets suggests that alleged 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be subjected to polygraphic interrogation. Excerpt: Polygraphs&#8230;are not only admissible but indispensable. &#8220;They won&#8217;t let him say a single word without being hooked up to a lie detector,&#8221; says &#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":[191,464,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-interrogation","8":"tag-khalid-shaikh-mohammed","9":"tag-terrorism","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}