Word: lie-detector
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...around," says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state equal-rights amendment passed...
Cronyism in office. Leaks and lie-detector tests. Softness on white collar crime. The Justice Department during Watergate? Edwin Meese at his worst? No, it's the list of charges against Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, and the reason he has become the Bush Administration's first high-level personnel problem...
...Congressman William Gray III, which proved to be ham-handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...
...Attorney General felt compelled to take a lie-detector test in connection with an internal-leak investigation that implicated top aides. The probe left ! many loyalists questioning his leadership...
...During a lie-detector test, DeLisle broke down, admitting that he had deliberately driven into the river. Why? According to Galeski, he wanted "to get rid of his present burdens: his wife and his children." DeLisle, who owes some $13,000 in bills and loans, was charged with four counts of murder and one of attempted murder...