DIA response to Congress - 25SEP2014.

Wandersmann wrote on Jul 25^th, 2017 at 5:19pm:


The noose is tightening.

To be fair and balanced, Stephen Colbert says "Truthfulness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case any more. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."

It's easier to fool a man than to convince him that he was fooled.

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It's still happening, Charlie M.  Three years and counting.

DIA blames SOCOM.  SOCOM blames DIA.  No one will accept responsibility for the decision to take unfavorable administrative actions against me.

According to my Congressman, a court ruling will be made in my case by November (this year).  Stay tuned.

From the National Academy of Sciences - https://www.nap.edu/read/10420/chapter/1


SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
 

Basic Science

Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy. Although psychological states often associated with deception (e.g., fear of being judged deceptive) do tend to affect the physiological responses that the polygraph measures, these same states can arise in the absence of deception. Moreover, many other psychological and physiological factors (e.g., anxiety about being tested) also affect those responses. Such phenomena make polygraph testing intrinsically susceptible to producing erroneous results. This inherent ambiguity of the physiological measures used in the polygraph suggests that further investments in improving polygraph technique and interpretation will bring only modest improvements in accuracy.

Polygraph research has not developed and tested theories of the underlying factors that produce the observed responses. Factors other than truthfulness that affect the physiological responses being measured can vary substantially across settings in which polygraph tests are used. There is little knowledge about how much these factors influence the outcomes of polygraph tests in field settings. For example, there is evidence suggesting that truthful members of socially stigmatized groups and truthful examinees who are believed to be guilty or believed to have a high likelihood of being guilty may show emotional and physiological responses in polygraph test situations that mimic the responses that are expected of deceptive individuals. The lack of understanding of the processes that underlie polygraph responses makes it very difficult to generalize from the results obtained in specific research settings or with particular subject populations to other settings or populations, or from laboratory research studies to real-world applications.

Interesting - Appendix B provides a copy of the DOE Polygraph Examination Regulations.

It also prohibits taking unfavorable actions against an individual based solely on the polygraph "results".

NSA and CIA must also have regulations - are they classified?

This is all that I could find on CIA:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/528259-fortish15.html

A common theme remains - the polygraph is an aid to investigations.