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<p>WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday hinted it would allow lie-detector tests for President Bush's staff in the investigation into the CIA leak.</p> <p>Probers began poring through records and phone logs to hunt for anything related to the leak that has sparked a political furor.</p>

The 3rd edition of AntiPolygraph.org's free e-book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, is now on-line and may be downloaded as a 1 mb PDF file here: http://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdfThis new, revised and expanded edition includes updated chapters on polygraph validity, policy, and procedure, as well as detailed information on how to pass (or beat) a polygraph test. It will be of interest to anyone who may some day face a polygraph examination, whether in the context of a criminal investigation, or as a requirement for employment with a government agency or contractor.

I'm going on record right now. I will not submit voluntarily to a polygraph test at any time, for any reason. Even if I'm innocent - especially if I'm innocent. The use of the lie-detector test has not gone the way of reading bumps on the head and tea leaves as it should have, and people must stand up against it. Polygraphs are ostensibly used to indicate whether or not a person is lying. However, authorities are always careful to not call it a "lie-detector" because they know it isn't. They say it's a "tool" they use in investigations. Well,...

<p>Captured Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq are proving adept at beating lie-detector tests, frustrating attempts to find banned weapons and to learn what happened to Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher.</p> <p>U.S. officials and military officers say trained interrogators in Baghdad have caught Iraqi Ba'ath Party loyalists lying while hooked up to the machine, which showed they were not being deceptive.</p>

Is anyone out there in Southern California listening to the recording of David Westerfield's interrogation and lie detector test on KOGO radio? Oh my...What I've learned is NEVER, EVER take a Lie detector test. I'm not saying he's not guilty...He's guiltier than hell.. but the way they do it. I would NEVER subject myself to this if I were accused of a crime. I know I'll be flamed, but I don't like it. On the other hand...Westerfield did himself in with how cooperative he appeard to be. Calm and chatty. One of the questions was "Have you ever hut anyone...

<p>Recently, the National Academy of Sciences issued a landmark report regarding the use of polygraphy by various federal agencies. Although many issues were explored and several conclusions were drawn, none was more important than the finding that polygraph screening is completely invalid as a diagnostic instrument for determining truth regarding counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, past activities of job applicants and other important issues currently so assessed by our various federal, state and local governments.</p>

  View Current Signatures   -   Sign the Petition To:  President George W. Bush President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush: We, the undersigned, ask that you issue an executive order immediately stopping all polygraph screening in the Executive Branch. On October 8, 2002, the National Academy of Sciences issued a landmark report regarding the use of polygraphy by various federal agencies. Although many issues were explored and several conclusions were drawn, none was more important than the finding that polygraph screening is completely invalid as a diagnostic...

Members of the House-Senate panel probing intelligence breakdowns are refusing FBI requests that they take lie-detector tests to reveal the source of a leak about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "I don't know who among us would take a lie-detector test," said Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "First of all, they're not even admissible in court, and second of all, the leadership [of both parties] have told us not to do that." The chairmen of the intelligence committees, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., and Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., asked the FBI to...

Lawmakers Asked to Take Lie Tests By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has asked several members of the House and Senate intelligence committees to submit to lie-detector tests as part of the investigation into who leaked information related to the Sept. 11 attacks, a law enforcement official said late Thursday. "Lie-detector tests are a standard element of FBI investigations and they are meant to eliminate people from suspicion," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "They are always voluntary." The Washington Post reported in Friday editions that nearly all 37 members of the intelligence committees have been...

Many Spurn Polygraph Requests On Issue of NSA's 9/11 Intercept FBI agents have questioned nearly all 37 members of the Senate and House intelligence committees and have asked many if they would be willing to submit to lie detector tests . . . The rest of the story is here.

FBI Chief Pledges More Polygraphs Wed Apr 3,12:36 PM ETBy TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday promised broader use of lie detectors and a closer check of employee financial records to help deter or catch spies within America's elite law enforcement agency. Mueller acknowledged delicate issues of privacy and trust. But he said FBI employees must realize that security needs to be improved after last year's arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen (news - web sites), who has pleaded guilty to selling secrets to Moscow for nearly two decades....

FBI Investigates Employees Who Fail Polygraph TestWed Apr 3, 2:14 PM ETBy James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as seven FBI (news - web sites) employees with access to highly classified information face more investigation after taking polygraph tests given to tighten security following the discovery (news - web sites) of a Russian spy within the FBI, officials said on Wednesday. "We have identified up to 700 persons who were responsible for looking at highly classified information and have run a polygraph program that I believe has been successful in that we have some assurance on all but one...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday promised broader use of lie detectors and a closer check of employee financial records to help deter or catch spies within America's elite law enforcement agency.</p> <p>Mueller acknowledged delicate issues of privacy and trust. But he said FBI employees must realize that security needs to be improved after last year's arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who has pleaded guilty to selling secrets to Moscow for nearly two decades.</p>

BY TIM JOHNSONtjohnson@krwashington.com WASHINGTON - Even though confessed Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes already outwitted a lie-detector test, the government plans to rely on polygraph exams to check her honesty as they debrief her about her 16-year spying career while working for U.S. military intelligence.Montes took a polygraph examination at least once during her career as an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, her attorney says.''At the time she was polygraphed, she passed it,'' said prominent Washington attorney Plato Cacheris, who added that he did not know when the exam was given.Critics of polygraph exams, which are designed to snare...

A long-time participant in the AntiPolygraph.org message board has received confirmation from an informed source close to the Ana Belen Montes espionage case that Montes took and passed at least one counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination during her 16-year career at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). See the following message thread and scroll down to the 13th reply: http://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?board=Policy&action=display&num=1001149488According to a document filed in support of her plea agreement, Montes had been recruited by Cuban intelligence even before she began working for the DIA. This indicates that Montes, like CIA spy Aldrich Hazen Ames, beat the polygraph. To learn how anyone can...