Word: polygraph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take a deep breath. That's supposed to be one way to undermine a lie detector. Inhale deeply before any questions that make you nervous. Applied breathing during polygraph tests is an old trick Russian agents were taught, a small deception in a business that knows all the big ones...
...during that first routine polygraph, something wasn't quite right. In Nicholson's replies to some important questions, a sophisticated new computer program spotted the shadows of a lie. When the test was repeated four days later, the signs of a false answer showed up again. So on Dec. 4 Nicholson was sitting before the machine again. And this time, just before the most sensitive questions, he appeared to be taking long, deep breaths. The examiner, who knew that trick, told him to stop, then proceeded to ask the crucial question. "Since 1990, have you had contact with a foreign...
...officer's file as "anomalies." Those can cluster into an incriminating "matrix" that might lead to a full investigation. "At any given time we have literally dozens and dozens of cases at every agency that raise questions," says FBI Director Louis Freeh. "Sometimes it's just a polygraph, and sometimes someone has plunked down $100,000 for a boat...
...exoneration. The FBI appears ready to drop Jewell as a suspect after conducting a six-hour interrogation Sunday. The agency has stopped tailing Jewell and has returned the property taken from his apartment. Although the FBI is not commenting, the bureau did not ask Jewell to take another polygraph test, and returned his gun collection, not something usually done for a major suspect. But simply dropping him from the suspect list is not enough for Jewell and his lawyer, who are looking for a formal, public admission that he is no longer a suspect in the bombing. Currently before...
...where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week the defense introduced former FBI polygraph expert Richard D. Rackleff, who said he had tested Jewell and judged him "totally innocent." (Jewell refused an FBI polygraph.) Finally the lawyers hit the interview shows, demanding that since the government wasn't accusing Jewell, it should clear him and apologize. Their week climaxed on Nightline's Viewpoint special...