{"id":4192,"date":"2004-06-25T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2021-03-21T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:53:29","slug":"colombian-soldiers-face-polygraph-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/colombian-soldiers-face-polygraph-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Colombian Soldiers Face Polygraph Tests&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Associated Press writer Dan Molinski reports in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynewsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/wire\/sns-ap-colombia-civilian-deaths,0,5181118,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines\">article<\/a> published by New York <em>Newsday.<\/em> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; A group of Colombian soldiers claiming to have accidentally killed five peasants face lie detector tests after investigations showed that at least one of the victims was shot at point-blank range, authorities said Thursday.<\/p><p>In a statement, the Defense Ministry said it would also give a polygraph test to army troops who shot and killed seven elite anti-kidnapping police officers and four informants in a separate unresolved incident.<\/p><p>The administration of hard-line President Alvaro Uribe is facing mounting criticism over its inability to explain a spate of erroneous killings, nor bring any charges against those responsible for apparent army excesses.<\/p><p>&#8220;The results of these tests will be made available to legal authorities,&#8221; the communique said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombian legal authorities should not make decisions based on the outcome of pseudoscientific polygraph &#8220;tests.&#8221; The procedure has an inherent bias against the truthful, and yet liars can easily pass using countermeasures that polygraphers cannot detect.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press writer Dan Molinski reports in this article published by New York Newsday. Excerpt: BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; A group of Colombian soldiers claiming to have accidentally killed five peasants face lie detector tests after investigations showed that at least one of the victims was shot at point-blank range, authorities said Thursday. In a statement, &#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":[141],"class_list":{"0":"post-4192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-colombia","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","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=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}