A Rejoinder on Polygraph by John F. Sullivan

[George W. Maschke]

Retired CIA polygraph examiner John F. Sullivan has rebutted the claim that no spy has ever been identified as a result of polygraph examinations. His "A Rejoinder on Polygraph" has been published as a Federation of American Scientists e-Print and is available here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/sullivan.html

[Eastwood]

Is this the guy that wrote the book?  I'd take this with a grain of salt.

[George W. Maschke]

Eastwood,

John Sullivan is the author of Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam (University of Kansas Press, 2002). I do not see what relevance his authorship of this book has to do with the credibility of the arguments he makes in his FAS e-Print, "A Rejoinder on Polygraph".

[Guest]

Eastwood, can't you see that when Georgie quotes all these people it makes him feel like he is a big boy and a real player like them.  You know kind of important by association.  Otherwise he is just a cry baby loser who has simply flunked his polygraph test and is still pouting about it.