The National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a video (http://dssa.dss.mil/seta/training_videos.html) intended to allay the anxiety of those facing polygraph screening with the agency. This past weekend, I posted a critique (https://antipolygraph.org/blog/) of the video to the AntiPolygraph.org blog (via YouTube):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93_FDeMENN4
The video has generated quite a bit of on-line discussion, and I thought it worthwhile to open a discussion thread here, too. Other sites where the NSA video has been discussed include:
- Slashdot.org (http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/13/2049211/The-Truth-About-the-Polygraph-According-To-the-NSA)
- Marc Ambinder's "The Night Beat" blog on the website of The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/the-night-beat-a-bp-escrow-fund/58089/)
- The "Hillicon Valley" blog on The Hill (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/102963-nsa-video-comes-clean-on-polygraph-use)
- Jeff Stein's "SpyTalk" blog on the Washington Post website (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/facing_nsas_lie_detector_relax.html)
- Jeff Stein's column on p. B03 of today's Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/14/AR2010061404970.html)
Seems like Jeff Stein went out of his way to avoid mentioning this website/organization. Great journalism.
Thanks for putting the link in the article's comments. I was about to do that but noticed you beat everyone to the punch!
Nice job on the video, George. Very understated and easy to follow.
I'm pleased to note that the video has had about 15,000 views in its first week online.
:)
Funny how they neglected to mention their use of probable lie questions which use pure trickery.