The latest issue of the weekly tabloid Globe Magazine features an article about Larry Sinclair that addresses, among other things, his lie detector tests with Ed Gelb:


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Now fueling further controversy in the ugly scandal is a disputed polygraph test that was set up and administered by an Internet Web site. Sinclair took up an offer from WhiteHouse.com, which is not connected to the government, to take a lie-detector test about his Obama charges. He was paid $10,000 for taking it and promised $100,000 if he passed. He flew to Los Angeles and took the test administered by former American Polygraph Association president Dr. Ed Gelb on Feb. 22. WhiteHouse.com reports that Sinclair failed on two key points -- the claim that he had sex with Obama, and the charge that he saw Obama smoke crack. "There was deception indicated in both tests," the site reported on Feb. 24, adding that "another expert examiner" independently corroborated the findings. But Sinclair tells GLOBE he was suckered into taking the test and was "set up" to look bad by failing the polygraph. He says he's been told Obama's camp is behind the lie-detector offer -- and also contends the Obama campaign put up hundreds of thousands of dollars to "set the entire thing up." "They put a condition in there that I'm not allowed to take another polygraph test for four weeks," he says. "This was a tactic designed to allow Obama to pretty much lock up the nomination before I can take another test and prove my story once and for all!" In his defense, Gelb tells GLOBE, "I have never taken a bribe to do anything improper in my life. This is a profession based on truth, honesty, integrity. I don't think you're ever going to find me in a position to compromise that."

But of course "Dr." Gelb did compromise that by misrepresenting himself as a Ph.D. in marketing his polygraph services.