{"id":514,"date":"2010-11-30T04:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-11-30T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:27:18","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’s Half-Brother Volunteered to Take Polygraph Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahmad Wali Karzai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Who’s afraid of a polygraph test? Not Afghanistan’s most notorious reputed drug lord, who is on the CIA payroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Stein reports<\/a> in his Washington Post<\/em> SpyTalk column that a secret\u00a0State Department cable<\/a> recently published by Wikileaks reveals that 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

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Drug Trafficker: Where is the Polygraph?<\/div>\n
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\u00b67. (S\/\/Rel NATO, ISAF) Unprompted, [Ahmad Wali Karzai] raised allegations of\u00a0his involvement in narcotics, telling the [U.S. Senior Civilian Representative Frank Ruggiero<\/a>] that he is<\/div>\n
willing to take a polygraph anytime, anywhere to prove his<\/div>\n
innocence and that he has hired an attorney in New York to<\/div>\n
clear his name. \u00a0He suggested that the coalition pay mullahs<\/div>\n
to preach against heroin, which would reduce demand for poppy<\/div>\n
cultivation. \u00a0AWK dismissed the narcotics allegations as part<\/div>\n
of a campaign to discredit him, particularly by the media,<\/div>\n
saying the allegations are “like a spice added to a dish to<\/div>\n
make it more enticing to eat.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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 “test” about whether he is involved in narcotics trafficking should give the U.S. Government pause about its continued reliance on polygraphy, which has no scientific basis<\/a> and is vulnerable to simple countermeasures<\/a> that anyone can learn.<\/p>\n

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":"

Who’s afraid of a polygraph test? Not Afghanistan’s most notorious reputed drug lord, who is on the CIA payroll. 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 …<\/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":{"0":"post-514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-afghanistan","8":"tag-ahmad-wali-karzai","9":"tag-polygraph","10":"tag-wikileaks","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}