{"id":514,"date":"2010-11-30T04:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:00:26","slug":"afghan-presidents-half-brother-volunteered-to-take-polygraph-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/afghan-presidents-half-brother-volunteered-to-take-polygraph-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan President&#8217;s Half-Brother Volunteered to Take Polygraph Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ahmed-wali-karzai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-516\" title=\"Ahmad Wali Karzai\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ahmed-wali-karzai-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ahmed-wali-karzai-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ahmed-wali-karzai.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmad Wali Karzai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Who&#8217;s afraid of a polygraph test? Not Afghanistan&#8217;s most notorious reputed drug lord, who is <a title=\"Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/28\/world\/asia\/28intel.html\" target=\"_blank\">on the CIA payroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Stein <a title=\"WikiLeaks: Ahmed Wali Karzai wanted polygraph\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110428184513\/http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/spy-talk\/2010\/11\/wikileaks_ahmed_wali_karzai_wa.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> in his <em>Washington Post<\/em> SpyTalk column that a secret\u00a0State Department <a title=\"AHMED WALI KARZAI: SEEKING TO DEFINE HIMSELF AS  U.S. PARTNER?\" href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/plusd\/cables\/10KABUL693_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">cable<\/a> recently published by Wikileaks reveals that <a title=\"Wikipedia: Ahmed Wali Karzai\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahmed_Wali_Karzai\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed Wali Karzai<\/a>, the half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, wanted a polygraph test to clear himself of narcotics allegations. The relevant paragraph of the cable, dated 25 February 2010, is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Drug Trafficker: Where is the Polygraph?<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\u00b67. (S\/\/Rel NATO, ISAF) Unprompted, [Ahmad Wali Karzai] raised allegations of\u00a0his involvement in narcotics, telling the [U.S. Senior Civilian Representative <a title=\"WhoRunsGov.com profile of Frank Ruggiero\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101216072105\/http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Frank_Ruggiero\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Ruggiero<\/a>] that he is<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">willing to take a polygraph anytime, anywhere to prove his<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">innocence and that he has hired an attorney in New York to<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">clear his name. \u00a0He suggested that the coalition pay mullahs<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">to preach against heroin, which would reduce demand for poppy<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">cultivation. \u00a0AWK dismissed the narcotics allegations as part<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">of a campaign to discredit him, particularly by the media,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">saying the allegations are &#8220;like a spice added to a dish to<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">make it more enticing to eat.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The document does not indicate whether the United States government took Karzai up on the offer.\u00a0That Karzai, reputedly the wealthiest narcotics trafficker in Afghanistan, is not afraid of a polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; about whether he is involved in narcotics trafficking should give the U.S. Government pause about its continued reliance on polygraphy, which has <a title=\"Forensic 'Lie Detection': Procedures Without Scientific Basis\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/articles\/article-018.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">no scientific basis<\/a> and is vulnerable to simple <a title=\"The Lie Behind the Lie Detector\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">countermeasures<\/a> that anyone can learn.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this Afghan drug lord on the CIA payroll understands more about polygraphy than the CIA does.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s afraid of a polygraph test? 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Jeff Stein reports in his Washington Post SpyTalk column that a secret\u00a0State Department cable recently published by Wikileaks reveals that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, wanted a polygraph test to clear &#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":[108,110,204,109],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-polygraph","tag-afghanistan","tag-ahmad-wali-karzai","tag-polygraph","tag-wikileaks","anons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afghan President&#039;s Half-Brother Volunteered to Take Polygraph Test - AntiPolygraph.org News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/afghan-presidents-half-brother-volunteered-to-take-polygraph-test\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Afghan President&#039;s Half-Brother Volunteered to Take Polygraph Test - AntiPolygraph.org News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who&#8217;s afraid of a polygraph test? 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