yankeedog wrote on Nov 16^th, 2002 at 12:40am:

diz30143, ?If you are looking for advise on polygraph, George W. Maschke is last person qualified to provide it to you. ?If he doesn't understand (and he apparently does not) the principle of a polygraph examiner not wanting to test a woman who is almost 8 months along in a pregnancy, he clearly is ignorant of even the basics of the polygraph procedure and process. ?I suggest you ignore what this character tells you. ?The best thing you can do is get some legal advise and go from there. ?Just make sure when you get advice from someone as important as this, they know what they are talking about. George does not! ?Get a lawyer and take their advice!

Yankeedog,

Your advice to diz30143 comes more than a year late.

Nonetheless, the issue of pregnancy and polygraphy perhaps deserves some additional mention. First, I would note that the model polygraph policy posted on the American Polygraph Association website provides no clear guidance regarding the polygraphing of pregnant women. It merely states:


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...Polygraph examinations shall not be conducted on any person whom the examiner reasonably believes to be physically or emotionally unsuitable for testing. This may include but is not limited to persons with heart conditions, women who are pregnant and individuals taking certain types of medication that may interfere with test results....

Former FBI contract linguist Can Dickerson, the subject of colleague Sibel Edmonds' espionage allegations, told Rebecca Carr of Cox Newspapers that the FBI polygraphed her regarding these allegations when she was six months pregnant.

That I have not thus far succeeded in finding an unambiguous statement of policy regarding the polygraphing of pregnant women, and the rationale therefor, does not logically entail that I am "ignorant of even the basics of the polygraph procedure and process."