Friday, November 6, 2009

Lie-Detection In The News

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Q&A With FBI Director Mueller
Secrecy News (blog)
As a result of polygraph testing, more than a thousand applications for employment at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been rejected or otherwise ...

FBI Loses 40% of New Recruits to Failed Polygraph Tests
ChattahBox
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, responded in his answers that as many as 40 percent of special-agent recruits failed required polygraph tests during the ...

Scots sex beasts face lie detector tests and satellite tracking
Scottish Daily Record
He was responding to a call from Tory Bill Aitken to introduce polygraph tests and satellite tracking to monitor sex offenders. ...

Police clear Yosef Espinoza, suspected Teitel accomplice
Jerusalem Post
... who had been suspected of helping alleged Jewish terrorist Ya'acov Teitel, was released by police on Thursday after passing a polygraph test. ...

Josh Duhamel's Stripper Affair Works Hard For Her $$$$!
PerezHilton.com (blog)
They complied at first, but changed their mind once they found Nicole's story and the polygraph credible - asking Duhamel's lawyers to disprove it! ...

Judge orders documents turned over to defense in Jabalee case
The Detroit News
Jabalee's attorney, Stephen Rabaut, said he's still waiting for various FBI reports, including a polygraph test conducted for Jabalee and documentation ...

On Sanibel, parents vent over principal
The News-Press
One child's parents paid for their son to take a polygraph in hopes of clearing him, but parent Rebecka Evans said those results then were used to coax a ...

Justices Weigh Opening Prosecutors Up To Lawsuits
NPR
He also initially got wrong the site of the shooting and the weapon, and failed a polygraph test. Harrington and McGhee were convicted by an all-white jury ...

Fraud charge dropped
Toronto Sun
The Crown dropped the charges against Long, who passed a polygraph "with flying colours," said defence lawyer Calvin Barry. "He had no knowledge that the ...

Florence Police Officer Under Investigation Resigns
KRDO
According to Cooper, an employee can be required to take a polygraph test to determine if any city policy was violated. Any information received through ...

What happened to baby Gabriel?
Daily Commercial
And, he is the same suspect that Lake County Sheriff's detectives said had two misses on a polygraph test stemming from the murder case. ...

Gorcyca faces misconduct charges again
Detroit Free Press
When a new trial was eventually granted, Gorcyca issued a news release in February 2007 questioning why Perry wouldn't take a polygraph test. ...