Friday, January 15, 2010

Lie-Detection In The News

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Police: Man robbed house
Fremont News Messenger
... began to question him about the money and particulars about the incident, he became agitated and asked police to leave. He also refused a polygraph test.

Sex offender moves into neighborhood on Locust Street... not have contact with minors or use alcohol and must follow geographic restrictions. He must also undergo sex offender treatment and polygraph testing.

18 apply for police chief slotDel Rio News Herald
My most prized accomplishment is becoming a certified polygraph examiner. This skill alone has solved countless crimes in Uvalde and adjacent counties. ...

New Study Reveals US Technology Can Be Used To Identify Terrorists
“These studies are so flawed that they have been ignored by the mainstream, but are still used by the Pentagon's polygraph bureaucracy to block the CVSA,” ...

Man charged with sex crimeMartinsburg Journal
Pauley agreed to take a polygraph test, which was administered on Oct. 6. Bush stated in his police report that the officer who administered the polygraph ...

Newsmakers: Sports Life
I want to see him call me a liar under a polygraph examination. Put it on ESPN. Put it on Fox. I'm ready." Canseco also criticized Tony La Russa, ...

Molest trial beginsNew Albany Tribune
She said the two young victims in the case will testify, and experts will also testify, that Hepfer failed a polygraph test and that he had pornography on ...

Canseco vs. McGwire Polygraph Test?
... steroids in bathroom stalls, Jose Canseco challenged Mark McGwire, who called him a liar, repeat his claim under a nationally televised polygraph test (Canseco has previously appeared in a televised polygraph exam conducted by respected nationwide polygraph examiner John Grogan) ...

Was an Intelligence Officer Fired for Friendship with Communists…or Because of ...
But nothing came of the accusation until late 2008, when officials in Washington subjected Dullahan to three polygraph tests. During one of the lie detector ...

Judge dismisses 1985 murder caseZimbeck passed a polygraph test administered by a Lt. Phillips, cited in the decision, who is now deceased. Retired Fulton County Deputy and Chief ...

World Record Bass Caught in Japan Accepted by IGFAAbout - News & Issues (blog)
It took six months, not to mention endless documentation, harsh criticism and speculation, and even a polygraph test, but Manabu Kurita is finally a world ...

Brant numbers are down but there will be a hunting seasonSeattle Times
Over the last five months, IGFA has been engaged in collecting a considerable amount of information and testimony from the angler including a polygraph test ...

Arizona Couple Takes Polygraph Test in Missing Baby Case
FOXNews
PHOENIX — An Arizona couple who police named persons of interest in the case of a missing baby took polygraph tests on Friday, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported. ...

Officer In Breast Fondling Relieved Without Pay
The alleged victim passed a polygraph test. The owner of the nightclub was shocked. "I'm disappointed an officer would do that." According to his personnel ...

Applicants sought for police dept.
Omaha World-Herald
... weekends and holidays, and be willing to submit to an extensive background investigation, medical and psychological testing and a polygraph examination. ...

Manabu Kurita's Bass Ties Previous Record
WFN: World Fishing Network
In the end, the IGFA staff concluded it would be both in the best interest of the IGFA and that of Kurita if he submitted to a polygraph analysis. ...

Mind-Reading Systems Could Change Air SecurityFOXNews
One system being studied by Homeland Security is called the Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, and works like a souped-up polygraph. ...

Authorities investigate trio of recent employee theftsThe report indicated no money was found and everyone questioned offered to do a strip search and take a polygraph test. No strip search was conducted, ...

The Pentagon War on CVSA – An AnalysisThe polygraph and the PCASS (Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System) are the only approved credibility assessment technologies in DOD. ...

Scarborough scoop: How the Taliban's double-agent bomber ambushed the CIA
Hot Air (blog)
So eager, in fact, that he reportedly wasn't given a polygraph before being taken to the base and was allowed to skip checkpoints before arriving at the ...

'Coyote Classic' draws several statesDickinson Press
“Occasionally we even do polygraph tests,” Olson said. The polygraph may be used again this year. “If somebody shows up in one day and shoots 20 coyotes, ...
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