"AntiPolygraph.org is a new grassroots organization dedicated to the abolishment of polygraphy. We provide a free, on-line book about polygraphy entitled The Lie Behind the Lie Detector: http://antipolygraph.org/pubs.shtml
"This book provides a critique of polygraphy from a scientific standpoint as well as a critical assessment of the U.S. Government's polygraph policy. We alse expose in great detail the trickery on which polygraph 'testing' depends, and explain how employees subject to mandatory polygraph 'testing' can protect themselves from false positive outcomes.
"We also have an uncensored message board for discussion of polygraph matters. Registration is not required, and anonymous posting is permitted: http://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl"
George Maschke, AntiPolygraph.org
AntiPolygraph.org has also posted the forms that DOE employees and contractors are required to sign before submitting to the polygraph: http://antipolygraph.org/read.shtml#doe-forms
The James Madison Project Home Page: http://www.jamesmadisonproject.org/
A new article about the Test for Espionage and Sabotage by
George Maschke: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/people/maschke/the_lying_game.html.
The polygraph screening format to be used by DOE is the Test
for Espionage and Sabotage. The most detailed report on this format
which is publicly available, is now available on the FAS website:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/tes.html.
To review the proposed DOE rulemaking, http://home.doe.gov/news/fedreg.htm.
See James Theiler's polygraph page at: http://www.trail.com/~btk/Polygraph/. He provides
a good many links that will be of interest.
Professor Honts of Boise State University formerly did research
at the Dept. of Defense Polygraph Institute, in collaboration
with the DODPI's current director, G. H. Barland. Professor Honts's
introduction and pointers to papers are contained on http://truth.boisestate.edu/raredocuments/screening.html.
It is worth noting that although the author supports the polygraph
for other purposes, he does not support polygraph screening.
See also Prof. Honts's collection of court decisions and testimony by various parties, on http://truth.boisestate.edu/polygraph/polylaw.html.
An informative website on lie-detectors: http://www.truthorlie.com.
The one at http://www.polygraph.com is particularly chilling. Doug Williams demonstrated on CBS "60 Minutes" that the polygraph is a "sick joke."
http://www.compliance.gov/poly.html has the full text of the "Employee Polygraph Protection Act" (EPPA) of 1988.
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/usg8.htm has more abbreviated information on lie detector test regulations. It mentions that the EPPA comes under the Federal Register: 29 CFR 801 .
http://www.apa.org/releases/liedetector.html published by the American Psychological Association (APA) refers to the following paper: 'The Validity of the Lie Detector: Two Surveys of Scientific Opinion,' by W.G. Iacono, Ph.D., and D.T. Lykken, Ph.D.,University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol.82, No. 3.
The use of the polygraph (lie detector test) is not nearly as valid as some say and can easily be beaten and should never be admitted into evidence in courts of law, say psychologists from two scientific communities who were surveyed on the validity of polygraphs. This survey appears in the June 1997 issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Applied Psychology.
Bottom line: the psychologists assigned a 61% reliability to lie detector tests. The polygraph community, on the other hand, quotes an 85% reliability.
http://www.nolo.com/ChunkCRIM/living_lie.html has an interesting personal account by a defense lawyer on the use of lie detectors. It also uses the phrase "to go on the box" for "submitting to a polygraph test."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/court/nscot750.htm is a news report regarding a 1998 Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on the use of lie detector results in military courts. The Court said: "There is simply no consensus that polygraph evidence is reliable."
http://www.advsearch.com/lie.htm has some interesting FAQ information, and some information about polygraph reliability.
The following site contains the Unclassified Abstract of the CIA Inspector General's Report on the Aldrich H. Ames Case http://nsi.org/Library/Espionage/Hitzreport.html. It includes details about the Aldrich Ames case and what went wrong, etc. including his passing repeated polygraph tests.
The site, http://www.nopolygraph.com,
discusses: "(T)he counterintelligence scope polygraph (CSP)
exam is based on the assumption that the examinee will lie in
response to the control questions. The validity of the polygraph,
already dubious to begin with, is utterly destroyed when the examinee
is aware of the trickery on which it is based." It also describes
the personal horror story of "Captain Jones," as well
as other victims of the polygraph.
http://www.stopolygraph.com/
discusses the inaccuracy of polygraph tests.
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