Hey Beechtrees,
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...Funny how they never attack Doug Williams' credentials, only his message of useful countermeasures.
Please allow me to do so. Doug's website says:
"Is a veteran of the US Air Force, and was assigned to the White House Communications Agency where he worked in the Situation Room and served as communications advisor to Presidents Johnson and Nixon, (Presidential Service Badge # 1994).
http://www.disa.mil/line/whca.html"
Which means exactly WHAT in the field of polygraph?
"Is a graduate of Oklahoma City University with a BS degree in Police Science."
Good for police training, means nothing to the polygraph community execpt maybe as a prerequsite to an accredited polygraph school and to eventual membership in the APA.
"Is a graduate of the National Training Center for Lie Detection in New York City."
That is Dick Arthurs' school. A small private polygraph school that teaches polygraph as little more than an interrogational prop.
"Was the first person licensed by examination under the 1972 Oklahoma Polygraph Licensing Act, and was licensed by the State of Oklahoma from 1972 to 1979."
Probably true, don't really know.
"Administered over 3000 polygraph examinations for many law enforcement agencies including the Secret Service and the FBI."
I love this one. According to Doug, who spent 6 years as a working examiner. If he REALLY administered 3000 exams, he would have had to administer OVER 2 exams a day, for every work day, over six years. That does not include holidays, vacations, sick days, training days, other other duties, (to include his supposed "supervisory duties". All in all, HIGHLY unlikely. Add to that his original claim of having conducted over 6000 exams, and well, I just suspect he has been taking a bit of a vacation with the truth...
Oh, and for his having run exams for the FBI and Secret Service? You might want to know these agencies NEVER use civilian police examiners. period. Now Doug may have run an exam or two in cases where his PD had a common investigation with the federal government, but these agencies are highly internalized. They don't even let other federal agencies run their exams....
"Is a ten year veteran of the Oklahoma City Police Department and held the rank of Detective Sergeant."
And he was sooo incensed at polygraph that he quit a glorious police career to take up the anti-polygraph banner.? Boy, now THATS dedication. Next thing you know, he will claim to have slept in his car during his crusade...
"Testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Congress and was very instrumental in getting the Employee Polygraph Protection Act passed into law."
"Very Instrumental?" By who's words? Dougs?
"Was a member of the board of the Office of Technology Assessment, an investigative arm of the US Congress impaneled to study the validity of the polygraph as a "lie detector"
Oh, I would LOVE to see the letter that appointed him to the OTA board.
Has been a guest lecturer at a number of colleges and universities. Has been featured on many national television shows including CBS 60 MINUTES, CBS NIGHTWATCH, NBC NIGHTLY NEWSWITH TOM BROKAW, CNN WORLD NEWS, FOX NETWORK’S EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN, NBC DATELINE, FOX NEWS, CNN NEWS STAND, A DOCUMENTARY FOR THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL, and will soon be featured in a documentary produced by THE LEARNING CHANNEL.
Has been featured in over 150 newspaper and magazine articles, scores of local TV news and talk shows, and over 2,000 radio talk shows."
Although I tend to doubt the numbers here, I do believe he had done all these media things. Doug LOVES to see himself on TV. Unfortunately that does NOT make him any kind of an "expert."
Polycop...
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