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Report on Second Day of Proceedings in U.S. v. Doug Williams
Reply #75 - May 14th, 2015 at 2:47pm
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A report of yesterday's proceedings in U.S. v. Doug Williams is available here:

https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2015/05/14/u-s-v-doug-williams-day-2-doug-william...
  

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Reply #76 - May 14th, 2015 at 4:17pm
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In deference to Mr. Williams and his family, I will not at this time comment on his countermeasure training, that which he was indicted for, his trial strategy, or his decision to change his plea, etc.

I will say though that nothing about his situation has any bearing for any individual who seeks to understand lie detection as it is practiced, the serious flaws of that practice, and standard polygraphic lie detection's ready susceptibility to manipulation.

I am further convinced that the interested public can be made aware of all of the above with no need for any direct contact with individual members of that public, i.e., no need for one on one training.  A video of a mock/scripted one on one training session, and a few simple tools useful for practice (a timing device, a tape recorder, and a mirror) are all that are necessary for learning how to efficiently manipulate that which leads to polygraph chart recordings.  Again-no need for one on one training and no need for a polygraph instrument for the aforementioned practice (although one would be used in the video)...more to come later on this issue...

The aforementioned video, a recorded presentation to a large university audience, sworn testimony to Congress, a "60 Minutes" et al appearance, etc. all to include a presentation of the elements of polygraph countermeasure training, are all  possibilities for sharing the aforementioned without some sort of commercial venture involving one on one training...
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Reply #77 - May 14th, 2015 at 6:52pm
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This is wonderful news.  Now all we need is a nice long prison term for this cockroach to send a message to all the countermeasure wannabees that justice will be served.  Maybe George and Drew will send Doug an occasional care package of cigarettes, candy bars, and socks, the currency of choice in prison.  And to those of you fools who threw good money away buying his junk or taking his personal training, we will ferret you out and deal with you appropriately.

Don't drop the soap in the shower, Dougy!
  
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Reply #78 - May 14th, 2015 at 7:19pm
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quickfix wrote on May 14th, 2015 at 6:52pm:
we will ferret you out and deal with you appropriately.


I don't think a lowly GS-11 has the power to ferret out anything or deal with anyone.
  
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Reply #79 - May 14th, 2015 at 7:35pm
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Are you going to contribute to Doug's prison commissary account?  As a GS-11 I can't afford to!
  
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Reply #80 - May 14th, 2015 at 7:40pm
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He may be able to get by fine once he gets the advance on his book deal and documentary. G. Gordon Liddy did just fine.
  
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Reply #81 - May 14th, 2015 at 7:46pm
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Doug Williams is no G. Gordon Liddy, as Dan Qualye was no Jack Kennedy, and remember what happened to him!  Book deal my ass!  In a month, he'll be forgotten.  The only income he might see is from whatever pennies he gets from his Amazon.com sales, and the G will take that, too.
  
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Reply #82 - May 14th, 2015 at 10:00pm
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What a fighter! Smiley
  

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Re: Doug Williams Polygraph Trial Discussion Thread
Reply #83 - May 14th, 2015 at 10:54pm
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Will the probable sentence for Williams equate to a life sentence given his reported age of 69, or will he be a suicide jockey while free on bond ????  Just Say'in ?


I truly hope this assclown is not an examiner.  making light of and even insinuating that one would take pleasure in seeing someone kill themselves, especially someone they don't even know or has done nothing to them, is one sick and sad human being.

Dropping the soap, bubba in a cell, orange being the new black; these are all fair game as they are snipes that are to be expected.

But making light of someone talking their own life, while this doesn't shook me if it came from an examiner, it is none the less a sign of a sad, insecure, sick, sick mind.  I hope this person doesn't own a gun, because he clearly has no value for human life. 


  

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Reply #84 - May 14th, 2015 at 11:20pm
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    You'll notice that the anti-polygraph people like George Maschke and Drew Richardson speak like dignified, educated men and never use crude, vulgar language Smiley.  Quickfix talks like a thug and actually advocates against the U.S. Constitution.  He probably can't read which explains why he doesn't grasp the first amendment.  He has to be a polygraph examiner.  Framing innocent people with polygraph witchcraft is probably the only way he can earn a living.  I am certain he couldn't solve a real case and catch a real criminal.  
  
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Reply #85 - May 15th, 2015 at 1:39am
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quickfix wrote on May 14th, 2015 at 6:52pm:
And to those of you fools who threw good money away buying his junk or taking his personal training, we will ferret you out and deal with you appropriately.

Sorry, I neglected to Mark & Quote Quickfix's anti-Constitution statement in my previous email.  Imagine....buying certain books should be a crime according to this guy. 
  
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Reply #86 - May 15th, 2015 at 1:46am
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In my opinion, the convicting of Doug Williams will do for the containment of polygraph countermeasures what the killing of Osama bin Laden did for the containment of global terrorism -- virtually nothing. 

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Reply #87 - May 15th, 2015 at 2:21am
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    You'll notice that the anti-polygraph people like George Maschke and Drew Richardson speak like dignified, educated men and never use crude, vulgar language Smiley.  Quickfix talks like a thug and actually advocates against the U.S. Constitution.  He probably can't read which explains why he doesn't grasp the first amendment.  He has to be a polygraph examiner.  Framing innocent people with polygraph witchcraft is probably the only way he can earn a living.  I am certain he couldn't solve a real case and catch a real criminal.  



Ok, back the truck up a wee bit.

Again, A quick reminder that I am unbid in all of this; after all, being independent, fair and unbiased are the hallmarks of a TRUE polygraph examiner.  I see both sides of your argument.

George and Drew have never been "crude" that I have ever seen, and although we differ on many aspects of the polygraph debate, they have always been dignified to me, which is far better than I deserve.  Because I will admit, I am crude, rude and socially unacceptable.  Having said that, I am honest about it and don't hide behind screen names.  

So sometimes crude is a good thing.  Sometimes the straight forward approach is better than sugar coating.  

I will agree, his book and his videos are protected by the first amendment.  I am a Libertarian and a huge believer in the Constitution.  But this wasn't a first amendment case.  It had nothing to do with the book or his videos.  If his book or videos were the problem, this would have happened years ago.  

The problem was his behavior around actually teaching and coaching the test in such a way as to hide people that told him, according to the evidence presented, that  they were trying to hide.  His crime wasn't teaching the classes or the book or his video.  It was, according to the charges, teaching the classes in an effort to obstruct whatever it is they said he was trying to obstruct.  I think I have that right.  Anyway, I don't know, I wasn't there, I didn't see the evidence and I was not a trier of fact.  With all due respect, neither were you.

Polygraph is here, and people practice polygraph.  As such there are people who are going to be against it.  As a polygraph examiner, I embrace this only because it creates balance.  There needs to be check and balances in all aspects of life that creates balance.  This is a universal fact.

Anti polygraph advocates are really friends to polygraph in a weird way.  1, it keeps us, or should keep us honest.  If we know, or this is the way it should be, that people are watching, then it should encourage us to avoid appearances of impropriety.  2, it keeps us on our toes and always striving with ways to keep up the opposition.  In a way, this is a general business model.  Competition is not a bad thing. It keeps people innovative and creative.  It encourages everyone to always do better, or sell better, or have better integrity than the guy down the street.   

If polygraph weren't here, you guys would just have something else to flip over.  This is the human condition.

I will agree that 9 times out of 10 he is an examiner, but then you are under a guest name too and I don't know who you are, so maybe you are one too just playing a game? We don't know.  

If he is an examiner, I wish I could look into his eyes and tell him what a bottom feeder he is that would make light of someone killing himself.  I also believe that is he is an examiner, he is a coward because he won't stand by what he said and own it.

Everything I say, I own, I don't hide.  SO not all examiners are without honor my friend.  And what you consider witchcraft, I consider a calling; and I put my future on the table a few times believing in that calling.

That is what makes me better than them.  I stand by what I see and I am the ONLY polygraph examiner in the world who can truly say that.
  

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Reply #88 - May 15th, 2015 at 2:23am
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Have to agree with ya on that Dan.  just like polygraph is here to stay, the anti polygraph position is too.  it is balance
  

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Reply #89 - May 15th, 2015 at 12:39pm
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The government's successful prosecutions of Williams and Dixon, in my view as a polygraph examiner (and member of the APA), serve to both validate the effectiveness of countermeasures and condemn the notion of polygraph as sound science. 

Therefore, it seems to me that those flattering accuracy claims (i.e., validity) touted by pro-polygraph organizations should be regarded as null and void.

The polygraph apologists have long resisted any form of a countermeasure challenge. Now we have proof why that has been the case, and remains so.
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