Dear Mr. Webb,

If General Eisenhower had been under the delusion that the fictitious 1st U.S. Army Group was a real one and had led Generals Omar Bradley (commander of the 12th U.S. Army Group) and Bernard Montgomery (commander of the British-Canadian 21st Army Group) to believe that they could rely on its support in combat, then it would have been the duty of any patriot with knowledge of the General's madness to sound the alarm.

The situation with the Department of Defense's new hand-held lie detector, the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS), is similar. The Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment, which came up with the device, is under the delusion that the PCASS can be relied on to screen liars from truth tellers, and has made such representations to other components of the Department of Defense. But the PCASS is a pseudoscientific sham. DACA put it through unrealistic trials that don't even begin to approach field conditions. And as I pointed out, the PCASS can be easily defeated through the use of simple countermeasures. In this case, the opposing forces (Al-Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents) know (and have known for years) that lie detectors are a sham.

Here again is my warning to U.S. troops regarding DACA's new pocket lie detector:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6hmEumtfvk

If you, a federal polygraph examiner and past president of the American Polygraph Association, truly believe that my sounding the alarm is treason, then please spell my name correctly when you make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.