posted 02-23-2009 08:16 AM            

If anyone has any contacts within the DC police Department, we really need to determine if this guy passed a polygraph back then or a CVSA.

posted 02-23-2009 09:06 AM            

You are correct when you state that we need to find out what was used in that case. I thought that I had read that the FBI conducted a polygraph examination on the suspect who was in jail. I also remember something that there was a question concerning the results of that exam since it was conducted via an interperter and perhaps the results were rendered as No Opinion.

If anyone can shed some light on this case, it would be appreciated.

As Skip points out this is what we need to clarify. If the CVSA was used we can use that information.

Skip, can we get you to volunteer for the APA Ad Hoc committee?

posted 02-23-2009 03:12 PM            

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Investigators then discovered that a Spanish-speaking interpreter, instead of a bilingual polygraph technician, was used in administering Guandique's polygraph, it said.
Relying on an interpreter, according to legal experts, can skew the results of the test because the questions are filtered through and possibly altered by the interpreter,

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Yesterday an article, also in the Washington Post By Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 22, 2009; referenced the polygraph as follows.

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Police began to focus on Guandique in 2002. An inmate came forward to say Guandique confessed to the crime while they were in jail, but his account was dismissed after he failed an FBI polygraph test. Guandique also took a polygraph test before he was sentenced in the two attacks; the results were "inconclusive."

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Apparently problems with this polygraph were not the recent revelation some pundits seem to indicate. Nothing I've been able to find indicates that CVSA was involved.
The jailhouse informant's story was an account of how Guandique allegedly said that Condit paid him $25,000 to kill Chandra
Levy

By the way GM is already starting to bang the AP gong re this case.

ADDON According to Greta Van Sustern, Tues PM, Guandique was fiven a polygraph exam, which was inconclusive. When they tried to do a follow-up test Guandique's attorney said no.
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[This message has been edited by ebvan (edited 02-23-2009).]

posted 02-24-2009 09:47 AM            

They were interviewing Levy's family and a family member stated: Yes, they gave him a polygraph exam. I understand after they gave him one polygraph, they wanted to come back. His lawyer said no, they were not going to give him another one.