{"id":4140,"date":"2004-02-19T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2021-03-20T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:36:10","slug":"indicted-former-enron-ceo-jeffrey-skilling-passed-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/19\/indicted-former-enron-ceo-jeffrey-skilling-passed-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicted Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling Passed Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>CNN.com reports in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/02\/19\/news\/companies\/skilling_comments\/\">&#8220;Skilling: two tales of one man&#8221;<\/a> that the indicted former CEO of the company whose name has become synonymous with corporate fraud passed a lie detector &#8220;test.&#8221; Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling&#8217;s lawyer, accused the government of making his client a &#8220;scapegoat,&#8221; adding Skilling had done &#8220;nothing wrong.&#8221;<\/p><p>Speaking to reporters outside the federal courthouse after his client pleaded not guilty to 36 charges, Petrocelli said Skilling had chosen to take a lie detector test when the Enron scandal broke two years ago &#8220;and passed it with flying colors.&#8221; He said the test was administered by a polygraph expert respected by the FBI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, what Mr. Petrocelli didn&#8217;t mention is that anyone can pass a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; with flying colors &#8212; regardless of whether one is telling the truth &#8212; through the use of simple countermeasures that polygraphers cannot reliably detect. Detailed information on countermeasures is available in AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s free e-book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">The Lie Behind the Lie Detector<\/a>.<\/em> Perhaps Mr. Skilling read it, too?<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com reports in an article titled, &#8220;Skilling: two tales of one man&#8221; that the indicted former CEO of the company whose name has become synonymous with corporate fraud passed a lie detector &#8220;test.&#8221; Excerpt: Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling&#8217;s lawyer, accused the government of making his client a &#8220;scapegoat,&#8221; adding Skilling had done &#8220;nothing wrong.&#8221; Speaking to &#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":[502],"class_list":{"0":"post-4140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-jeffrey-skilling","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","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=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}