FBI chief promises more lie detector tests, watch on employees' finances

Associated Press ^ | 4-3-02 | TED BRIDIS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) --

[steve-b]

Requiring financial disclosures from employees in sensitive positions, and paying attention to anything unusual, is SOP for any kind of agency requiring high security.

As for the "lie detectors", there are other technologies which yield equally valid results and cost far less to implement:

 

[bvw]

Yes.

[George Maschke]

Failing a polygraph "test" is no evidence of deception, and passing one is no evidence of truth-telling: polygraph testing is a pseudoscientific fraud that has no scientific basis and no validity.

Moreover, the simplistic method by which truth vs. deception is inferred in a polygraph "test" makes it possible for liars who understand that the test is a fraud to beat it. For a full explanation, see Chapters 3 & 4 of AntiPolygraph.org's free book,

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector