Polygraph Induced Confession after 9-11

[meangino]

Approaching the 5th anniversary of this infamous attack, let us not forget the polygraph-induced false confession of Abdallah Higazy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14744072/

How many resources were unnecessarily expended in this whole fiasco?  Resources that could have been used pursuing legitimate leads.  Shame on the polygrapher who pressured Higazy into his false confession.

[George W. Maschke]

The polygrapher who extracted the false confession from Abdallah Higazy is FBI Special Agent Michael Templeton. His conduct brings shame not only on himself, but on the FBI and Department of Justice, which respectively sanctioned and whitewashed it. For previous discussion of the case of Abdallah Higazy, see the following discussion threads and report:

• Polygraph helps coerce false confession
  
• FBI Polygrapher Michael Templeton Named in Lawsuit
  
• U.S. Attorney James B. Comey's Report to Judge Jed S. Rakoff on the Polygraph Interrogation of Abdallah Higazy