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Shimla, Sept. 4. (PTI): India has become the second country after United States to introduce 'brain finger printing' for detection of white collar crimes, M S Rao, Chief Scientist and Director of National Forensic Science Laboratory, said today. Under the technique, if the memory cells of an accused do not tally with his oral uttering during the investigations, the lie can be detected, he said here. Crime committed by an accused remains confined to the memory 'like the hard disc of a computer' and can be detected, he added. Rao, who was here in connection with an international seminar on...

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    Read Full ReportDate: Oct. 8, 2002Contacts: Vanee Vines, Media Relations OfficerAndrea Durham, Media Relations Assistant(202) 334-2138; e-mail <news@nas.edu>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPolygraph Testing Too Flawed for Security ScreeningWASHINGTON - The federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national-security risks because the test results are too inaccurate when used this way, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.Much of the evidence assessing the validity of polygraphs, also called "lie detectors," is based on their use in the investigation of specific, known events such as crimes....

Last month Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, ranking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, set about investigating an apparent congressional leak. It involved a National Security Agency intercept of a telephone conversation in Arabic conducted on Sept. 10, 2001, and proclaiming that the following day was to be "zero hour."Unable to find the source of the leak themselves, the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees, Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), asked the FBI for assistance, pledging the full cooperation of committee members and their staffs. And that is what the FBI...