Indeed, statement analysis can be useful and provide many insights to an interviewee's state of mind...particularly in a spontaneous interview. It would however, be interesting to know if Greta or her staff did a pre-interview with Ms. Hartely prior to the aired interview. In such cases, the areas of emphasis and much of the verbiage may not be genuinely the interviewee's but rather the result of steering which took place during a preliminary interview. For example, the person doing the statement analysis points out the seemingly awkward pronouncement about being "on the Mexico side" of the lake so early in the interview. On its face, that is curious and should be considered significant; however, if Greta or one of her staffer's had done a preliminary interview with Hartely and repeatedly asked her which side of the lake she had been on, and made a big deal of that, it would not be unusual for her to emphasize that in the aired interview.
I have no way of knowing if that's the case here, and frankly don't have enough info to feel comfortable making any kind of hard and fast opinion at this point...but regardless of what comes of this, the fall out will be interesting.
A Fishing Paradise Gains a Deadly Reputation
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/us/08pirate.html?_r=2
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The shooting was the latest in a string of attacks by pirates on the lake that began on April 30. The gangs carry AK-47s and sometimes claim to be Mexican federal police or American game wardens. They have sometimes hijacked high-prowed boats favored by Mexican fishermen and used them to chase down Americans in bass boats, stealing their money at gunpoint.
But Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, on the Texas side of the lake, has said that Mrs. Hartley’s story is credible and that the assault is in keeping with other recent robberies, some of which happened in the same part of the lake.
On April 30, for example, two boats carrying five tourists who wanted photographs of the Guerrero church were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily tattooed men in a fishing boat who identified themselves as “federales.” They demanded cash and even asked, “Where are the drugs?”
A week later, on May 6, three fishermen were robbed at gunpoint near Salado Island. On May 16, another group of boaters was robbed, again by armed men in a fishing boat on the United States side of the reservoir.
More recently, a gang of pirates in a small boat, with “Game Wardin” spelled out in duct tape, tried to stop a Texas fisherman, the police said. The Texan figured the misspelled word meant they were not really game wardens and outran them, the police said.
The governor has also staunchly defended Mrs. Hartley against anyone who doubts her account, saying he finds such theories “really reprehensible.”