{"id":815,"date":"2013-04-02T07:13:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2013-04-02T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:16:36","slug":"u-s-president-accompanied-by-polygraph-operator-when-traveling-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/u-s-president-accompanied-by-polygraph-operator-when-traveling-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. President Accompanied by Polygraph Operator When Traveling Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/haruspex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-816\" alt=\"haruspex\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/haruspex-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haruspex reading entrails<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;When the president travels overseas, the Secret Service will bring along a polygraph examiner in case they need to determine quickly whether someone acting suspiciously is intent on doing harm.&#8221; So note <a title=\"Marc Ambinder - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_Ambinder\">Marc Ambinder<\/a> and <a title=\"D.B. Grady - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/u-s-embassy-in-yemen-reportedly-forces-local-employees-to-submit-to-polygraph-testing\/\">D.B. Grady<\/a> in a parenthetical remark at p. 164 of their new book, <a title=\"Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118146689\/\">Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But as emeritus professor of psychology <a title=\"John J. Furedy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.utoronto.ca\/~furedy\">John Furedy<\/a> <a title=\"The North American Polygraph as Entrails Reading: Truths and Practical Advice to Potential Users and Victims\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/othergov\/polygraph\/furedy.html\">has observed<\/a>, polygraph operators can no more divine truth from the examination of polygraph charts than ancient Roman <a title=\"Haruspex - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haruspex\">haruspices<\/a> (entrail readers) could divine future events from the examination of intestines. Make believe science yields make believe security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the president travels overseas, the Secret Service will bring along a polygraph examiner in case they need to determine quickly whether someone acting suspiciously is intent on doing harm.&#8221; So note Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady in a parenthetical remark at p. 164 of their new book, Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. &#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":[140],"class_list":{"0":"post-815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-secret-service","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}