The polygraph, which was used by the Pentagon to bolster a defector's claim that U.S. Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher was taken prisoner by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, is now being used to bolster the opposite conclusion!

Reuters correspondent Will Dunham, in an article published in today's New York Post under the title, "Missing '91 Pilot is 'Dead,'" cites a U.S. official who asked not to be named:


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The official noted that information from an Iraqi defector that Speicher survived and was held captive had been discredited. The official said Iraqi doctors who the defector said would know about Speicher have denied any knowledge of him and passed polygraph examinations.

Dunham fails to note that the Iraqi defector also passed a polygraph examination...